When I go to an event, such as Spankopalooza (which starts today), I try to sell my books at the vendor fair. I sell both my erotica and my non-erotica works. But I’m in the process of wrapping up a middle-grade contemporary fiction novel, and that one I won’t be able to sell at events. Oh, it’s relevant to the audience — it’s about polyamory — but it’s from the point-of-view of a young teen dealing with polyamory in her family.

That… is not appropriate for a kink event.

So where am I going to sell this book? I mean, yeah, it’s going to be on Amazon, and I’ll probably order a couple of author copies, but I don’t do non-kink book sales or signing events. My non-kink persona isn’t as well-known as my JJ Rose persona, and I can’t tread on the success (such as it is) of my erotica to get bookstores to want me to do events. I did do one sci-fi signing back in 2019 and I sold and signed exactly one book; not really encouraging. I guess I could go to local bookstores (there’s one relatively nearby) and see if they have any interest.

Most of my marketing is done on a one-to-one basis: me talking to an individual (or a very small group) about my books. I only have so much energy for marketing, so I want to put said energy into something that I know sells, and my spanking fiction sells way better than my non-spanking fiction. And, of my non-spanking fiction, this middle-grade contemporary fiction novel is its own thing; it’s not sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or mystery. So it’s going to be even harder to sell. I mean, maybe I could get some traction at a polyamory conference, but to do that I’d have to actually go to the polyamory conference, which won’t be cheap. I’d have to pay for a hotel, vendor space, travel costs, stock, food and drink for myself, and so on. All of that to maybe sell one or two books.

I’m really curious who’s going to actually read this one when it comes out. I guess I’ll find out.