I was reading, in one of my erotica hangouts, why having a virgin pen-name is a good idea.
I already know why you want a different pen-name for each kink. Jay writes the dino-sex, Kay writes the reverse harem, May does the lesbian BDSM and so on. It’s so the readers don’t get confused. When they are waiting for your next story and they jump onto the Amazon page for the one you’ve just published and it’s BDSM when they wanted hucow, they are going to be disappointed. And vice versa, of course. Way to disappoint multiple audiences in one go.
No, this has to do with the way that Amazon sells books.
Amazon doesn’t present the same website to every customer. Once you have an account they begin tracking what pages you look at, what books you buy, where you live, how old you are: a thousand pieces of information.
You get shown books that you might like to buy. Every time you click on one book out of a row, or buy one of their recommendations, it’s another dat…
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