How do I get an ADULT book published?

Question

I've been working on this book for almost 3 years about sex and the internet. It's VERY adult & graphic. Now that it's almost done what should my next step be? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

oh, that's a complicated answer. And Long.
I'm assuming you've written it, and edited it until it's as perfect as possible. If you haven't you may want to pick up some books on the subject while you are so you won't have to do all the research before hand. You can find a lot of answers on different websites. It's the same way you'd publish a young adult or children's book, just a different category.
You'll need to make a proposal for a book: which usually include a Query Letter, Synopsis, Chapter-by-Chapter, and Author Bio. If you really think you're a "professional writer" you may want to consider making or hiring someone to design you a website dedicated to your work. All the resources I've read say this will increase your chances at getting published.
You'll have to do your research even more than just on the subject of getting published, but on Agents and Editors. It's best to get an agent first that further increases your chances, but you can always try going straight to an editors doorstep. A book place to find some listings would be in Writer's Market books. You'll want to research them, because of the requirements of your proposal package, but also, especially for agents, you want to make sure you're not running into a scam.
If you're lucky, the editor/agent will ask for the first 3 chapters or 50 pages of your manuscript. If you're extremely lucky they'll ask for the full manuscript afterwards, or first, but usually it's the second contact. And if you're beyond the extreme you may wake up one morning with a contract in your mailbox.
Once you do get that contract though, the hard stuff starts. Hard to imagine right? Editing and making deadlines, book promotion and more happen in the time before, during, and after the release of your work.
This is, all assuming, of course, that you want to get published the traditional way.
I don't know much about the non-traditonal ways, but I do believe their are two ways to get published under this segment: Small Press and Vanity Press, though some people argue that small press is the same as the traditional publishing route. Usually small press is done by a company that only publishes a certain type of book, for instance, the US Navy will only publish non-fiction books on the military.
Vanity Press is the fun one. You pay for everything. For every book that gets printed you pay for, you also sell them by yourself. you get more money this way per book then you would the traditional route, but their aren't many successful stories going this way. Also, an agent or an editor would help you make the story more marketable to the audience, and catch any mistakes or inconsistancies you may have made in the story, a vanity press will not.
If you are successful with a vanity press publishing though you may be able to get an editor or agents eye and they'll buy your rights, which they would have done if you went in the traditonal way.
If you'd done it the traditional way you more than likely would have had your books automatically put on the shelves of Waldens, and Barnes and Noble.
As I mentioned a lot of research needs to get done, but hopefully this would give you an idea.
For a recommendation of books to read you can go to my website under the "For Writer's Section" at www.freewebs.com/robinbev.
I'd also recommend that you consider joining the Writer's Digest Book Club, which has given me numerous sources on the path of writing and to getting published.
Hope this helped.
Robin

Answer 2

i do no longer think of any form of e book is extra handy to get revealed than the different, a minimum of no longer on typical. consult with what e.l. stated. you would be fortunate adequate to catch a passing trend, the place publishers look to snap up each and every little thing they are in a position to get their palms on, yet being fortunate is yet another form of subject. i do no longer believe writing for babies or pre-teenagers (or any age group under person) is extra handy than writing for adults. Many newbie writers look to think of so, nevertheless. Books for no longer-yet-adults are not inevitably easier than books for adults, purely distinctive. this is extra handy - being a school lecturer or a usual college (person-friendly college) instructor? you could say usual college instructor, as there are various extra of them, yet how lots of this is via the reality that extra human beings attend usual college than attend college? BQ: i'm writing a YA fable approximately magic mirrors. BQ2: at the instant I even have 40 two,one hundred forty four words. BQ3: My YA books have the occasional swearword - the present e book has 2 so some distance. A Wizard's Daughter has 4. The person books I wrote until now that have lots extra swearing. I swear in genuine existence while i think of no one's listening. BQ4: i'm going to respond to this two times, as quickly as for A Wizard's Daughter and as quickly as for the mirrors e book. A Wizard's Daughter: undesirable boy? there's a bully, yet this is in keeping with risk no longer what you recommend. A rape scene? No - there is a few groping or tried groping. A intercourse scene? No. A kiss scene? countless. A jokester? No. A existence or dying decision? lots. Magic mirrors: undesirable boy? No. Rape? No. intercourse? no longer yet. reckoning on the place I end the story, there could be some later. Kiss? One so some distance, probable extra later. Jokester? No, and not making plans one. existence or dying decision? lower back, lots.

Answer 3

Go to the library and get a copy of the Writer's Market. It lists publishers by genre, and includes addresses and contact information, what to send in what format, and to whom.

There is also a book called How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica by Susie Bright.