[New Book and a Free Halloween Book]

I will be giving this book away again this Halloween. From Friday, October 29, 2021, 12:00 AM PDT until Sunday, October 31, 2021, 11:59 PM PDT, it will be free on Amazon.

I hope you enjoy it if you haven't had a chance to catch it free in previous give-away.

LINK: Halloween Again? 

 

[Kindle People, Please Help]

I should clarify, that should only happen if the book was in Kindle Unlimited. I have no idea if it was never enrolled.

[Mrs. Taylor Chapter One (C&C invited and welcome)]

10 hours ago, Ohmo said:

Pinioning:  tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone).

Pinning:  holding someone firmly in a specified position so they are unable to move.

Although the two words can be used almost interchangeably, pinning was chosen because:

• it more accurately describes the scene a viewer might look upon
• it brings a better rhythm to the phrase
• in my circles it is the more commonly used term of the two in this context

Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it!

 

 

Not to split hairs but did you agree with me or did autocorrect take over?

[Mrs. Taylor Chapter One (C&C invited and welcome)]

I liked it. However, did you mean to use pinioning in the context of "pinioning my arms to my side" instead of pinning?

Overall, good premise and I like what I'm reading.

[Where do You Share?]

2 hours ago, Ohmo said:

There are more places to read and/or buy ABDL related stories than I imagined due to the relatively small niche the genre fills.

1. What's your favorite place to read free ABDL writings?
2. What's your favorite place to buy ABDL writings?
3. If a selling author, what venue has been most productive for your ABDL writing?

Inquiring minds want to know. ?

1. I read mostly hear and from Kindle.
2. Amazon is the biggest seller of all books.
3. I sell mostly on Amazon. Smashwords didn't work out too well for me. ABDiscovery.com.AU is selling my Ingrid Chronicles series so that is going well.

[New Amazon Release - Diaper Plague: A Smart Girl in Diapers]

19 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

Because Botox likes to write about women in diapers. ?

I thought that was understood. LOL

[Authors what do you like about DD for posting stories over other sites?]

I started posting stories at WetSet and won the story of the month a few times. Then, I moved to ILuvDiapers and had several stories included in the monthly newsletter. After that, I have been a member of DailyDiapers since about the inception. I'm member number 65 and joined in December of 2004.

I posted many of my stories here. Unfortunately, when the story forum was corrupted, I decided to jump to publishing on Amazon. I still post a few stories here and I try to make an Amazon story free for the DD users from time to time.

[Trest 9500 ML Capacity!]

23 minutes ago, Little Sherri said:

I'd imagine the diaper could "hold" 9600 ml, the way that my car could "hold" 60 bags of mulch. It would fit in there, but then you couldn't go anywhere or do anything with the car. You couldn't sit or walk or lie down in a diaper with 2.5 gallons of fluid entrapped within it - you'd have to just stand, slightly bowlegged, frozen in wonder and mute terror. 

For practical purposes, I find maximum-capacity products underwhelming, because even if the diaper doesn't leak, it expands so much that I can't wear it unless I'm willing to spend 14+ hours alone and with a towel over my chair, waiting for the inevitable. I have Rearz Barnyards and Alpacas and Crinklz in my inventory, but I almost never get a chance to wear them to anywhere near their capacity, because it's rare for me to have a day where I don't need to go anywhere or see anyone, for the entire day. I don't wet enough overnight to make use of them then, either. For me, a good medium-range product that can give me 8 - 10 hours of protection is far more useful, because I can go about my day without worrying about having a "dead racoon in my pants" appearance. Rearz' mid-range products like their Lil' Monsters and Splash diapers, or Northshore's Megamax come to mind. 

Agreed. It was more a curiosity than anything. I'd expect the practical limit to be somewhere around 6-8 liters/1.5-2 gallons, depending on position and distribution. A guy doesn't use near as much of the back and girls don't use a lot of the very front without some diaper gymnastics. (Hmm, I'd like to see some diaper gymnastics)

I find an Abena or Molicare are perfect for most situations, including overnight. Even a Tena Classic works well for discrete and everyday use. I've got some Rearz and a few other premium diapers that I just can't seem to bring myself to waste if I'm not going to at least give them a good workout.

[New Amazon Release - Diaper Plague: A Smart Girl in Diapers]

6 hours ago, Spiderman said:

Is it okay if I ask specifically why the plague just effected women?

Certainly.

That is the topic of a yet to be released story I'm still working on. The root cause will be known in that book. I'm thinking it will be the last in the series. I have two more also in the works. The woman astronaut that was the last women with bladder control who returns to earth and another about a group of women that rebel and form a resistance organization. This book, A Smart Girl in Diapers, shows while women were robbed of continence, some high IQ girls weren't content to be arm candy and baby factories.

However, I can tell you it was discovered early on that the virus attacked a recessive gene not present on the Y-chromosome. Women, having two X-chromosomes, allowed the virus to express its full payload on them. I believe this was revealed in the Book 2 - The New Normal.

[Trest 9500 ML Capacity!]

8 minutes ago, DailyDi said:

I think we've "jumped the shark" on diaper capacity now lol

Nobody is jumping much of anything with 9.5kilograms around their crotch. That's almost 21 pounds for us 'Mericans.

[Trest 9500 ML Capacity!]

First, I have NOT tried this diaper. I have only heard about it on the Love In Brief Podcast.

They claim an amazingly huge 9500ml capacity. That over 2 and 1/2 gallons! Imagine.

Can you imagine four 2-liters and almost a fifth hanging from your waist?

https://amzn.to/3eHnEPb

[New Amazon Release - Diaper Plague: A Smart Girl in Diapers]

My latest book in the Diaper Plague series, Book 6 - A Smart Girl in Diapers, has been released on Amazon in Kindle format. 

Here’s the blurb:

When all the women in the world are incontinent from the plague, those that come after never knew a time without being wet and in diapers. But what's a smart girl to do in this world?

This is the sixth in the Diaper Plague series. It is the story of Emma Boxer, the smartest girl in her class, possibly in the whole school. Her tale illustrates how a brilliant girl, deprived of a properly stimulating education, still manages to find love and grow.

Things are not all sunshine and rainbows for a smart girl, though. She must learn to navigate this man's world or face the consequences.

 

[Earning money from our work - what works and what doesn't?]

• Aside from Patreon and DeviantArt, are there other sites or ways of selling your work have you had success with? Any you would call the best?

I use Amazon, both Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. Of late, I've also placed some thing with ABUniverse that has done well but I don't have any stats yet.

Content/Genre questions

• Does anyone take commissions? Has this been effective for you? How have you structured your pricing? Do you have anyone regularly commissioning work?

I don't take commissions. I write what I like. I have a hard time writing what others want unless it meshes heavily with my personal tastes.

"Add-ons" questions

• Has anyone commissioned visual artwork to accompany any of their writing? Do you think it increased sales enough to justify the expense?

I've never paid anyone to do artwork. I have generally found free, public domain images and made them work with a little photoshopping.

• Has anyone hired a narrator to record your work? Has that sold enough to justify the expense?

My sales are low enough that I don't have any level of confidence that paying for narrator would be cost effective.

Collaboration questions

• Is it worth it to work with an editor? I'm thinking primarily a proofreader, but it's expensive. If anyone has had any luck with a proofing program that catches things like missing words and typos that aren't actually misspellings, I'd be most interested.

I use ProWriting Aid to do most of my proofing for grammar and spelling. It helps quite a bit as long as you examine the changes without just mindlessly clicking everything.

Other means of earning money questions

1. Has anyone considered any other ways of making money by serving the ABDL community? - I have not
2. Has anyone tried starting a business for physical products for the ABDL community? - I have not

I've not gotten rich with Amazon but 30+ books have earned me some extra spending money every year. It is a hobby for me so money was never my main concern.

[Summer Giveaway #1 - Baby Print Plastic Pants]

I've got a pair for you, too!

[Kindle People, Please Help]

4 hours ago, Ohmo said:

I'm not sure what that means.  Well, I know what it means, just in terms of royalties.  Kindle book sells, author gets paid the royalty a bit later - right?

Someone had your book in their Kindle and it sat for a very long time before they decided they would open it and read it. I've had it happen, too.

[Kindle People, Please Help]

If you logged into the KDP account, you should be able to see a report on where the money came from.

If you search for the book on Amazon, do you find it? The other option is someone had it in their Kindle and finally started reading it.

[Kindle Select sucks]

16 hours ago, PeculiarChangeling said:

It's not a literal monopoly, but their business practices *are* anti-competitive. Comparisons could be drawn to the way that companies like Standard Oil would undercut local competition by selling at a loss, because they could afford to absorb the cost nationally - I'm not really interested in the question of 'is it technically legal' or whether it fits the dictionary definition of a monopoly. Amazon's business practices are bad for the indie market because they own such a massive chunk of the market share that they have de facto control of the market and their competitors can't really compete. You can't offer meaningful exclusivity because no author would take exclusivity with B&N over Amazon. You can't charge less because the profit margins are already at the floor. You can't charge more to try and get a profit and build your business, because then everyone would go to Amazon. And Amazon does everything they can, not to make their own business succeed, but to hurt competition so that nobody else can build up enough market share to fight them head-on. 

Have you ever heard the phrase, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" before? Plenty of competitors exist but they all want it their way or are carving out their own niches. If a few of them would band together instead of living off the scraps Amazon allows them, they would be a force to be reckoned with.

Does anyone even remember Blockbuster, Borders, Kodak, Pan-Am, Polaroid or Toys R Us? Kodak was in business for more than 100 years and they went out with a whimper when the next big thing in pictures killed them and Polaroid. Netflix killed Blockbuster and I'm sure Amazon had a hand in Borders' demise.

There is nothing too big to fail. Entities become too big to survive. Dinosaurs demonstrated this perfectly. The smallest animals were the ones that survived, the lean, efficient ones, not the behemoths that perished.

What are current events and realities today can quickly change, often in a ball of flaming fire in the sky. LOL

[Kindle Select sucks]

On 6/19/2021 at 2:09 AM, PeculiarChangeling said:

This is exactly what I'm talking about with Amazon using its market share to crush the competition. 

You don't sell well on other websites, because most people use Amazon. Most people use Amazon because a lot of books just aren't available on the competitor's websites. Books aren't available on the competitor's websites because Amazon offers perks for being exclusive to them. Amazon offers perks for being exclusive to them in order to ensure that a lot of books aren't available on their competitor's websites. 

 

(Edit to add: I'm not criticizing any author who goes Amazon exclusive. We gotta do what we can to stay afloat. I'm criticizing the anti-competitive business practice that Amazon engages in, not the individual authors who rarely have the sort of bargaining power to influence policy.) 

They do not have a monopoly. You and I are free to publish any place we like. There are plenty of options. Barnes&Noble for one. Amazon does have the lion's share of the market though. If you want the most eyeballs, Amazon is the best bang.

As for Kindle Unlimited and people reading "for free" everything in KU, they pay a monthly fee that is divided among all the pages read and distributed to the authors per page read. At $0.004 per page, it isn't big money but if you have 10,000 pages read a month, it adds up pretty quickly. I've had a few 10,000 page views per month and those are sweet checks that were in addition to sales.

[Recognising the efforts of our Authors]

On 6/21/2021 at 8:24 PM, Cute_Kitten said:

Though there have been times in the past when an author felt they weren't getting enough praise or got upset over an innocent question. Example: "Last chapter said the characters were headed to Hawaii....and now they're wearing snowsuits and going sledding???" and the author throws such an epic butt-hurt fit they got themselves banned. That was more a reflection of how unstable the author was, and not the DD community.

To be fair, you CAN find snow on Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii. Both are well above 13,500 ft tall and have snow most winters.

https://www.hawaii.com/big-island/things-to-do/snowboard

[Story about MtF Gender Affirmation Surgery?]

On 5/23/2021 at 3:10 PM, aaah said:

Love the idea, bought the book. I've been looking for diaper TG-stories forever. I'm clearing my afternoon right now to dive into your book! 

I hope it didn't disappoint.

Would one set in the same world but in reverse go over? A woman that identifies as a man? The mechanics of the universe would make it a more arduous legal task but I've been thinking of it as a project.

[Software based writing "assistants"?]

ProWriting Aid is also available in Google Docs. It helps with a lot of my writing but I fight it on some things. I disable those rules that cramp my style.

Also, it can point out words you overuse. My downfall is "just" as in "She just wet herself" and "I just need another chance."

[Kindle Select sucks]

7 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

I have a trilogy published on Amazon and other ebook sites. Total number of sales from nonAmazon sellers, is ZERO! Not one sale from the other sellers. They are still in business, but I have received no royalties from them. This is over 7 years. Not sure how many have sold on Amazon, but I have sold some.

I just published the first of my Ingrid Chronicles with ABDiscovery. We shall see how that goes. I'm hopeful but not counting on it for the purchase of my first private jet.

The method you are using now is called "going wide" by most in the subreddit I'm in. If your work is compatible with Amazon and already there, you should give Kindle Unlimited a try. You will have to remove them from all other sites that sell it but I'd bet you see more money because the folks that have Kindle Unlimited will take a chance on it because they have already paid a monthly fee. I can discuss in PM if you want to quiz me.

After all, you said yourself you've made $0.00 in 7 years with non-Amazon. Give the pay-per-page option a try. It literally doubles my income. That's also why I'm curious to see how ABDiscovery works out.

I think I'm paid something like $0.0045 a page. A 200 page book read once is $0.90. My profit on a 200 page book that sells for $2.99 is usually about $2.05. If my book is read twice, that is about as good as a sale. Some months I have 10K pages read. I'm not getting rich by any stretch. If it was about money, I'd write steamy romance where some of those folks make over $10,000 A MONTH!

Here's a chart of my book sales and pages read. The slump to 0 pages read for a few months was me trying Smashwords. That was a low point in income.

[New Botox Book Available at ABDiscovery]

I'm trying something different for a series I was afraid Amazon would not allow. I'm publishing my Ingrid Chronicles with ABDiscovery. If you are interested in reading a 40K word book with two complete stories, you can check it out at this link:

https://abdiscovery.com.au/the-ingrid-chronicles/

Cover art and blurb for your perusal.

Ingrid is a Dom. Her favorite method of dominating her subs is to put them into 24/7 diapers and make them use them. Two women - Lissa and Olivia - come under her ‘training’ and the future is now unwritten for both of them.

[Pirating/Amazon Issue]

Never had that happen. I'd be interested in hearing what you discover.

[Kindle Select sucks]

9 hours ago, DiaperboyEddie12 said:

wow you have a lot of books on Amazon!

It comes from writing for more than 20 years. I've still got old stories that most likely won't fly on Amazon. I'd love to get my Mistress Ingrid: The Diapering Domme up but I know they would make me nervous, waiting for Amazon to bring down the ban-hammer.