How to I get paid to write gig reviews?

Question

I'm cool. And I need a channel for this coolness. And I am broke.

Answer 1

Get a job at a newspaper or a magazine.

Answer 2

No. It's hard to break out of a genre once you're established. And regardless of pseudonym, editors/agents/publishers will know of your previous publishing credentials and they will judge your future work based on it. There have been plenty of authors who have been rejected because publishers believed they weren't marketable if they tried selling a story outside of their reader demographic. (Then again, there are many examples of the opposite as well). So, if you intend to break free from the erotica genre, you'd have a more difficult time doing so because your previous publishing credentials follow you everywhere you go. And regardless of what anyone says, there *is* a stigma against erotica writers (any controversial writer for that matter), in the publishing industry. Unless you become a best selling author (and therefore have leverage over all publishers), you will be pigeonholed just as every genre writer is. As for embarrassment...I would never attach my name (real or otherwise), to a piece of writing if I was embarrassed by its content. I write because I have something to say. If I'm embarrassed over the subject matter, then what gives me the authority to *write* on that topic in the first place? No, I wouldn't aim to publish something If I didn't want to be associated with my own thoughts (recognized as the author).