New Home For Erotica and Erotica Romance Opens From Selena Kitt

We are SO excited (see what I did there?) to be opening our doors at last! Finally, erotica and erotic romance will have a REAL forever-home!


WHAT IS EXCITICA? 

EXCITICA is a new storefront run by Selena Kitt - New York Times bestselling and award winning author of erotica and erotic romance fiction with over one million authored books sold. She has run her own publishing company at eXcessica for six years and has been one of the most vocal authors against the corporate censorship of erotica. She has developed eXcitica to create a home for erotic works of all flavors.

EXCITICA, like the rest of the distributors, still doesn’t allow underage sex, bestiality (although shifters are fine, even sex in shifter form!) or necrophilia (vampires excepted!) but we do allow many of the things the other distributors don’t, like incest, pseudo-incest and non-consent.


What does EXCITICA do for erotica and erotic romance authors?

First and foremost, we give you 60% of your profits! W00T! Cha-Ching! Secondly, with Selena Kitt’s brand and name behind it, EXCITICA will soon be known far and wide as the place to go for HOT reading!

Small Publishers: You are welcome! We have room for your entire catalog and the uploading interface is simple!

Taboo Writers: EXCITICA is home for you! EXCITICA will be known among readers as the place to go for the books they can’t find anywhere else. Like yours!

Erotica Writers: Even if you publish “just vanilla” erotica (and we all know that’s still HOT!) EXCITICA will be your home too! Readers who read taboo don’t JUST read taboo erotica and your books will be there to discover when they want something a little bit different!

Erotic/Romance Writers: No one can live on taboo alone – and if you are an author paying attention to the market, you know that dark erotica readers don’t just read taboo and dark erotica – they read romance too. A lot of it! And they’re going to like yours! And if you write dark erotic romance? (And we all know how hot that genre is right now!) You've found your real home with EXCITICA!


What does EXCITICA do for readers?

One of the biggest problems with erotica at the big distributors is categorization. Some have none at all. Amazon, the largest distributor of eBooks, added a few token categories to erotica – two years after Fifty Shades of Grey was first published! It’s hard to find the erotica you want on the big distributors (especially since places like Amazon often go out of their way to actually hide it from you, using the ADULT filter on certain titles!) and it’s even harder if you’re looking for anything out of the ordinary or taboo.

That’s one of the things EXCITICA has strived to do – categorize things for readers (and writers) so that every fetish, every niche, has a place and can be found. The better a writer categorizes their work, the easier time a reader will have of finding it. From incest to pseudo incest, to cuckold to dubcon, to gangbang, pregnant, or creatures, EXCITICA has categorized it ALL! And if you write it or read it and you don’t see it? Contact us, we’ll add it!


WHAT ABOUT CENSORSHIP?

Am I worried about EXCITICA being censored or shut down?

Only mildly. Of course, writing in the genre has its risks. I think we all know that, and it’s been proven over and over as the corporate jackboot of censorship has come down harder and harder on our necks.

But my goal in creating EXCITICA was to give all erotica, in all its different flavors, a real home. A SAFE home. A place where almost everything was welcome, and readers nor writers would feel ashamed about it. To do that, I had to be sure that we wouldn't go through any more drama like we did during the Paypal fiasco.

But the good news is that, since Visa clarified its position about paying for the WRITTEN WORD when it comes to erotica (and Paypal reversed its decision not to pay for “certain” type of fiction) Paypal has nothing to fear, and neither do we. EXCITICA will accept Paypal – and Paypal has publicly stated they are fine paying for any and all erotica that doesn't have nudity inside the eBook.


That means EXCITICA does have a few tiny rules:

We do not publish picture books of erotica. Graphic novels and comics are welcome, but photographic stories inside eBooks are not.

We do not publish bestiality (shapeshifters are fine) necrophilia (unless you count vampires) or underage sex.

No sexually active characters under the age of 18. References to past relationships and sex before the age of 18 is fine, but no detailed sexual content with characters under the age of consent in the U.S, is allowed. We require that your work have an legal age disclaimer stating that all characters are above the age of 18.


What do I need to do to get my book on EXCITICA?

Sign up for a SELLER ACCOUNT!

You should be approved right away and you can start uploading your books!

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Website Link:  http://www.excitica.com/#

Is it Erotic Romance, Erotica or Just Good Ole Fashioned Porn?

Amazon like any good master gives us Erotic Romance authors both pleasure and pain.  But unfortunately because of the stresses of it's masters i.e. Master Card and Visa, they have really put the clamps down on authors who write steamier books.  

Why?  Well it's a long story and I'd rather you read it from the person who really has her finger on the pulse of the matter Selena Kitt.  An Erotic Romance and Erotica author, she has seen and felt the good and bad side when it comes to the woes of dealing with Amazonian censorship here or if the link fails here's the link in text: 

 http://selenakitt.com/blog/index.php/2013/05/29/corporate-fail/

But what if you read 50 Shades of Grey and you want more, except there's so much to choose from you're not exactly sure what you like.  

First-- Erotic Romance is a sub-genre of Romance with the sex scenes being more explicit.  Okay but what is Romance?  Typically in the Western market, especially in America, the Romance book genre can be defined as a novel containing a story about the evolving or ongoing relationship between two or more people that (and this is the important part as categorized by the Romance Writers of America) contains a HEA or Happily Ever After.  So no dying from a terribly tragic disease like in the movie Love Story.  Nope, ain't gonna happen cause that's in a different genre altogether.  

Now granted there are authors who write HFN or Happily For Nows meaning all is okay right now but trouble is looming around the corner.  These type of endings fit within the Romance category but in a slightly different sub-genre.  

In both cases, if the sex scenes are taken away all together the romance part of the story should still hold its own.  

Now granted in Erotic Romance, sex is not there for sex sake but is a part of the intimacy in which the characters form and is integral to their relationship.  They are often sensual and draw the reader allow him or her to experience it through the character's eyes.  

Okay but what about Erotica? 

As the blogger in Sexy Romance stories puts it Erotica is actually quite different–although it has a sexual arc, or journey, there is often no romantic arc. And there is rarely a ‘Happily Ever After,’ much of the time the ending is either sad or ironic. ( Or as I might add, satisfactory for those involved.  No tears needed.  Just a good time had by all.)

And their definition of Porn?

"Although Porn typically has a loose plot line, it does not require any sort of character arc or personal growth on the part of any characters."

Not sure I would agree with that but I go more towards Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Potter Stewart when he said and I'm paraphrasing, "I can't define it but I know it when I see it."

Mind you that is not an extensive explanation but it should help for now.  I know it did wonders for me when I first started reading romance.  

Enjoy and remember, we're all adults here.  The decision is up to you.  Just do it responsibly!

Have fun!  And Sexy Reading!