Veeky Forums, I'm almost done my novel

You're right. I'm sorry for my hopes and dreams. Kill me.

Amazon gives more than triple the royalty than traditional publishers too. You can make it an e book and a paperback

Just e publish it right now, OP

Fuck it I'm gonna do it.

I'd like an editor though, first. I've been writing this book over the course of five years and it's have massive rises and dips in quality.

If anyone wants to read it, I've been putting the chapters out on Literotica.

literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=2084583&page=submissions

> gay erotica
I don't know what I expected, but fuck did I set the bar too high

I've read tons of Star Wars slash, I'm not going to pretend I'm above this sort of thing

You mean you didn't read the post where I said it started out as gay porn

And you didn't see the pic in first post and I said pic kinda related which also had a gay vampire in it

It's gay erotica. It's just extremely detailed and feelsy gay erotica. Basically if you took out all the sex scenes it'd be your average not-shit young adult novel.

I just read niche
And I thought the pic was about you sucking the publisher off
> the guy who drew that picture is pretty good I guess

Well, if anyone's willing to be an editor for me, I'd love it. It needs turning up here and there, but it should be ready to go in a month.

Made a cover for it.

If you make it a PDF I'll read it in a week and tell you hi what I thought
But I'm not gay so I can't really rate the authenticity of the Sex scenes

Eh, I'm not all that worried about the sex scenes. They're the highest rated.

Lemme see what I can do.

ufile.io/rbtqt

The format's shit cuz I've been working on it in OTD and it doesn't translate well to PDF, and it's really long, but have fun.

And seriously, don't worry about not being into the gay part. I wanted to make it kind of like... sexy enough that it wouldn't matter what the gender of the characters was.

Also you can tell me the first few chapters suck, I wrote them like five years ago. It doesn't really get any good until chapter four or five. I need to rewrite those, I just don't know how.

Alright
Lookout for a thread next week, I'll use your cover as OP pic

>its literally gay vampire fanfic-tier erotica

Well fuck me, I honestly thought you were being ironic when you said that. The absolute state of Veeky Forums lmao.

How would you even pitch this to an editor with a straight face?

>Straight face
What the fuck is that supposed to mean you intolerant fucking wife beater?

Are you one of those homosexual authors? Like John Green or that Jap dude?

Are you qt

he clearly has a fag face m8, he doesn't need a straight one. I wouldn't read it but don't pretend there aren't millions of reddit homos who wouldn't suck the cum outta this shit.

Some publishers accept unsolicited manuscrpts.

>they're the highest rated
kek, somebody screen cap this shit. So much faggotry it's almost straight

Hey, dude. I'm an editor working at New Directions, we are currently preparing a series of homosexual books, yours can be one of those if it meets the required criteria we're looking for. Also, how's "The Sucker" for a title? Let me know, pal.

>a series of homosexual books
You're an editor, you say? Is it for a Junior High news flyer?

No, it's for faggy books like yours.

My books are just a little effeminate, stop being so judgemental

Also poetry and such.

Dont worry, effeminate sells like crazy. Now with Call Me by Your Name there's a craving for gay stuff.

Just have to properly market it. And the title is 50% of the job.

Same person, right?

Yep.

no

Maybe

I don't know

kek

Can we suggest titles? I'll go first:
Bloody Fangs
Live Flesh
Sucky the Vampire's Adventures
Inside Your Neck
Unlimited Blood

And we're back on track for standard Veeky Forums

I'm OP, I haven't been on all night.

The book's title is Hematoma and it's gonna stay that way. And it's definitely not trashy erotica by any means. It wouldn't fit in with your standard corset busters or wank material which is why I'm having a hard time deciding what to do with it.

can you repeat the question?

>literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=2084583&page=submissions

I like your prose, and the poeticism in your diction sounds nice, which is interesting considering the subject matter.
It's up to you to decide what is meaningful to make with your talent, and i'd never say that writing erotica is "beneath" you. I just hope you decide to continue writing. I'm not gay so i don't think i'd ever buy your book tho, sorry.

Ok, my bad, that's a good title.

Thank you. From a straight guy that might be the best critique I can get lol.

I'm not even gay myself, though I am bisexual. I just think there's something artsy about homosex. Like that sexual tension in greek statues.

You spent five years writing about gay vampires?

I'm not even trying to be a dick, honestly, hats off to you, that's dedication.

It's a passion project. It developed from erotica to drama after I got out of an extremely abusive relationship, and eventually the story became about the abuse and psychological trauma dealt with by the MC through his relationship with the vampire. There's still a ton of sex scenes, but it becomes extremely dark and several of my readers confess they've either cried over it or had to stop reading because it hit too close to home.

I'd like to give some of the proceeds (if it sells) to benefit male victims of domestic abuse.

>What the fuck do I do now?
you suck my dick

...

How about "Homotoba"?

I know this is a joke but I personally believe that just because a piece of media has homosexual relations in it, it doesn't specifically have to be marketed as gay.

Your boyfriend abused you? Like, did he hit you and stuff?

Ive some title ideas....
"Count Dickula."
"Blood, Sweat and Semen."
"Vampire Love"
"Suck this."
"The Fangtastic Sexual Awakenings of the Homosexual Vamp."

No, he emotionally and mentally abused me. He would watch me sleep and talk to me while I was sleeping, like deep sleep hypnosis, made me keep my Skype on at night so he could do it while we weren't together. I thought that was romantic for some reason. He also made me feel inadequate in bed, he was my first time and told me I was too tight for him to enjoy, and when I loosened up for him he told me I felt like a dead fish. He would masturbate and make me wait in the kitchen for him to finish because I wasn't good enough. He eventually started telling my family that something in my lifestyle wasn't real and that I was only doing it for attention, which they already had suspected. He also knew something I'd done in my past that I wasn't proud of and he would tell me things like "If anyone knew you did this, they would never want to be around you. I'm the only person who could love you even though you did this."

So I attempted suicide like three times because of him. I had started writing this book a little before I left him but it escalated after my third hospitalization and once he was out of my life.

Also I can really only talk about this stuff because I'm anonymous, most of my real-life friends and family don't know why I was hospitalized.

>Suck This
top kek

>He eventually started telling my family that something in my lifestyle wasn't real and that I was only doing it for attention, which they already had suspected.

Mum, I fuck dudes for inspiration, you wouldn't get it.

>I was too tight for him to enjoy

Your anus was tight? did you loosen up by having sex with other people?

I don't want to talk about what it was he told them was fake, but they knew I liked dudes, that was no secret.

No, I bought toys and practiced while he was gone. By the time he tried again he said he could barely feel me. The toys I used were super small, too.

Everyone I've been with, girl and guy, since him has been happy with me, so he was just a monster. But it was years before I could get over that sense of inadequacy he gave me. I still have trouble.

Your vampire theme and relationship experience made me think of Vampyre of Time and Memory by QOTSA, give it a listen, OP. Take care, hope you get it published.

Oh man, I love QOTSA. I listened to them a lot when I was writing. I can't say I've heard that song though. If it's on Like Clockwork that's probably why. Era Vulgaris is my favorite.

Astaghfirullah.

Absolutely my dude. I was just fooling around. In all honesty, I hope it goes well buddy.

Yo thanks.

For real, give it a read if you feel inclined. I hoped that the characters didn't actually come across as effeminate in any way.

If that's what you want to be remembered for (if you're lucky) then go for it my man

Yeah, I'd be happy to have that in my history. I'm proud of it.

This was the first version of my cover but I don't know how I feel about it.

Honestly I'm not happy with the second version either. What should I do for the artwork?

I might just give it a read my dude

Thank you. I'd actually much rather get the opinion of people who aren't reading it for the porn so I can judge it as a novel as well as erotica.

Id ask someone that's read all of it to give you advice on artwork

Will do. Thanks.

Don't put a vampire or whatever on the cover though , might shoehorn you a bit

I'm not intending to. The story is written from the perspective of the MC and I want to show him, possibly his piercings, bruises, tattoos, bite marks.

Originally I had wanted it to be the tattoo that he ends up with on his back but it's too elaborate for my pleb skills.

> this is an erotic novel about a vampire and a masochistic human which started out as gay porn and slowly turned into a story about domestic abuse.

Well....it certainly sounds original. Youve got me curious.

Not OP but is it pretentious if I try to create my own genre for my book?

I could squeeze it into a couple of genre's but it doesn't fit exactly.

I mean, if I had to summarize...

The MC, Shay, is a masochist, addicted to pain, it's the only way he can get off. His main vice is tattoos and piercings. There's a scene in there where he tries to have a normal sexual encounter with someone and he ends up slicing his hand just to finish, partner calls him crazy and fucks off and Shay cries himself to sleep.

Shay then ends up confiding in his local tattoo artist, Yorick/"Ricky", who finds out that Shay has a pain fetish and decides to indulge him. A couple sessions in, Ricky confesses that he's a vampire and if Shay wants to go further, then he has to give up his blood. Vampires have no pulse, and they can't get hard without blood.

Shay agrees, there's tons of crazy vampire sex, eventually it crops up that Ricky is a sort of "outlaw" from the society that looks after the nation's vampires, although Shay isn't entirely clear on or doesn't believe the reasons.

But as time goes on, it becomes apparent that Ricky is going further with things than Shay is comfortable or tolerable of, all the while assuring Shay that because of his tendencies, he won't find someone else who would be with him the way Ricky is. It just escalates from there.

>When Shay stakes Ricky in a metaphorical reversal of all the times Ricky penetrated Shay with hard, foreign objects

Oh damn. He didn't stake him but god can you imagine.

Spoiler alert, Ricky does die. Thank god.