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And why shouldn't you? It's one of the most lucrative and expansive writing markets in the world. It's also, thanks to the delicate sensibilities of the Web, one of the hardest writing markets to research online.
Current Markets Keeping a list of current markets is beyond the scope of this site. However, these are some places to look: The Erotica Readers and Writers Association - Articles on reading erotica, writing erotica, and doing erotic things—alone, in company, or with toys. Also has plenty of erotica. The important section from the porn writer's perspective, is the Author Resources section: articles on how and why to write erotica and where to send it once you've written it. Market listings, guidelines, and calls for submission. Mary Anne Mohanraj's Writing Resources - Essays and articles on writing erotica, plus an invaluable and regularly-updated market listing with guidelines and authors' comments on working for various publishers. A good place to go to discover whether a given market is dead. Katy Terrega's Newsletter for Writers of Porn and Erotica - Fresh calls for submission and detailed discussions of niche markets, updated biweekly. You don't need to subscribe to read the newsletter. The down side of this source: It is larded with advertisements for Katy Terrega's other products. Erotique - An erotica writers' and readers' newsletter. Appears to be dead. Sex-Writer.com - A Katy Terrega site offering articles and market listings for $9.95 per half-year subscription.
Lists of Porn and Erotica Publishers dmoz's Adult Booksellers - Follow the "see also" suggestions to find magazine publishers.
Other Market Resources Regular writers' resource lists are iffy places to find porn and erotica market listings, but from time to time they have something. These are a few of the top listings: Writers' Weekly - An excellent weekly e-newsletter with new market listings and job openings, which are also listed in the forum. Freelance Writing - Paying and nonpaying writing and editorial jobs. This link goes directly to the paying writing jobs.
Writing About Porn Erotic Fiction: A Writer's Perspective - Ray Girvan's essay on the erotic novel market of 1999. An excellent historical overview of erotic novels. Unfortunately, both the links and the details of the advice are largely outdated, but this is a good place to start. Breaking Into the Erotica Market - Magdalene Meretrix's basic tips on how to break into the erotica market after writing porn. Hot Tips for Hot Writers - Erotica Femina's tips for writing women's erotica. Underground Writing, Part III: Writing Pornography for a Living - An account of three writers' experiences, including one writer's stint in a late 70's/early 80's porn mill. Guide to Writing Good Trash - A highly opinionated essay on writing, well, trash. Purloined Porn - A Salon article on pay sites which charge their customers for archives of stories stolen from free sites. Lust in the Dust Jackets - A Salon perspective on 50's and 60's erotic novels and the olympia Press. The Lady Is a Pornographer - An interview with Abby Ehmann, editor of Extreme Fetish magazine.
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