Category Archives: business of writing

a writer does her taxes

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Tax time is coming around here in the U.S., and for the first time I have enough writing income to report. This blog post should go on to say how I researched tax codes, collected information, sat down with a … Continue reading →

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Making Stories Stand Out

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Be Different. Be. Different. I was talking about experimentation and difference in the last post. I think my attention to difference is one of the reasons I manage to sell stories consistently. Erotica stories, by their nature, are somewhat the … Continue reading →

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The Tale of an Erotica Writer

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

How did it begin, that I became a writer of erotica? I sent my first story, “Water Music,” off to an anthology edited by Mary Anne Mohanraj called Aqua Erotica. Alas, it did not sell. Later, when I saw the … Continue reading →

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