Getting paid for erotica?

[YmaOHyd]

How about Patreon? Do they have anti-erotica terms of service?

EDIT: Looked into it and found the answer is "no"

I guess my real question is whether anyone has a satisfying degree of success (defined as income) on Patreon regarding erotic stories.

I think -- not 100% sure, but think -- @aimingtomisbehave33 is at the point where he's been able to support himself fully with his Patreon. @BreakTheBar is probably there or thereabouts too.

 

[CalBishForNow]

How about Patreon? Do they have anti-erotica terms of service?

EDIT: Looked into it and found the answer is "no"

I guess my real question is whether anyone has a satisfying degree of success (defined as income) on Patreon regarding erotic stories.

Yeah, I was going to mention Patreon until you beat me to it.

I know some writers here use it. Some even post their stories here after they've been on Patreon for a few months for paid subscribers. @antarctica77 comes to mind. Patreon displays a dollar figure per month a creator makes on their page, but I couldn't tell you if that's before or after they take their cut, how reliable it is, what the median/mean/mode is, or anything like that.

 

[CalBishForNow]

I think -- not 100% sure, but think -- @aimingtomisbehave33 is at the point where he's been able to support himself fully with his Patreon. @BreakTheBar is probably there or thereabouts too.

Based on their author page, it looks like aimingtomisbehave33 is doing it on Smashwords, not Patreon. And based on the link in BreakTheBar's Author page, I just learned that not all Patreon author pages display income, so that's news to me.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Based on their author page, it looks like aimingtomisbehave33 is doing it on Smashwords, not Patreon. And based on the link in BreakTheBar's Author page, I just learned that not all Patreon author pages display income, so that's news to me.

I guess he's closed it (hopefully because Smashwords is doing well). He used to do a lot of AI art of his characters for Patrons; you can still find spots where the content's been scraped if you google his username.

 

[aimingtomisbehave33]

I guess he's closed it (hopefully because Smashwords is doing well). He used to do a lot of AI art of his characters for Patrons; you can still find spots where the content's been scraped if you google his username.

I closed my Patreon page for a number of reasons; among them were burnout at having to create a constant stream of content at an unreasonable pace that I admittedly set for myself, Patreon's ever-changing rules toward erotica (some of which weren't publicly stated) that made publishing Senior Year Memories and related stories next to impossible, and piracy from people who scraped my page for its content and posted it for free being unbelievably demoralizing. Smashwords isn't nearly as profitable as Patreon was, but it does allow me to at least have more of a degree of control over a lot of things, particularly my own schedule.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I closed my Patreon page for a number of reasons; among them were burnout at having to create a constant stream of content at an unreasonable pace that I admittedly set for myself, Patreon's ever-changing rules toward erotica (some of which weren't publicly stated) that made publishing Senior Year Memories and related stories next to impossible, and piracy from people who scraped my page for its content and posted it for free being unbelievably demoralizing. Smashwords isn't nearly as profitable as Patreon was, but it does allow me to at least have more of a degree of control over a lot of things, particularly my own schedule.

I'm sorry to hear that. Burnout sucks, and piracy sucks worse.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm published through Boruma Publishing with most of my sales through Amazon and Smashwords.