Bitten Fruit Books and Satin Smoke Press have changed the structure of their payment pages. Having searched long and hard for another payment processor, we currently still have *PayPal on our site, and since their policies on the transactions of erotica eBooks are now much more favourable, we have no immediate plans to change that. However, we also now offer payment via Google Checkout, through an order form and invoice system, so our readers have a choice about which payment service they use. (We did have a Nochex account, but it wasn't ideal, so I have not revived it.)

I've tried to make everything as easy as possible on these sites. Unfortunately, we can no longer receive international currencies (we need to charge more for the fees, and cannot compete with places like The Book Depository), so payment must be in GBP only. You can see the BFB Paperback shop HERE, and the Satin Smoke Paperback Shop HERE.

Dianna Hardy

*Even though we do not publish or sell the sub-genres of erotica books that they were censoring, we still cared that the policy was hindering the distribution of fiction that was perfectly legal. In effect, it was relevant to independent publishing in general, and to readers who like variety without having their choices limited by where they can shop. 

If you're a Kindle owner and an Amazon Prime customer, until 25th April, you can get The Witching Pen (Book One of The Witching Pen Novellas) for just $0.99 AND you can read the second book in the series, The Sands Of Time, for FREE.

That's TWO books for only $0.99 - fun times!

Enjoy.
Dianna x

NOTE: to make sure you're eligible for FREE books via Amazon Prime, please read THIS THREAD.

Yes, I have "retired" my erotica-writing pen names to concentrate on my paranormal romances. In a nutshell, I've been writing more and more paranormal / urban fantasy stuff over the past few months, which has left little time for the erotica, and when I try to write the erotica, I either have to sacrifice my time spent on writing my paranormal books, or the erotica turns into the paranormal stories.... Anyway, you can read my entire decision here, if you haven't done so already http://diannahardy.blogspot.com/2012/01/bye-bye-erika-elysa.html

My writing is still interwoven with eroticism / steamy scenes, it's not just "erotica", which is what it was when I first began eBook publishing just over one year ago.

I'm sure some of you may not be surprised at my decision, and others of you will be.... Will I be giving up writing erotica altogether? I have no plans to write it with the aim to publish, and if I ever do, you may never hear about it ;) Who can say -- never say never.... At the moment, I'm solely concentrating on the three series that I want out this year, so I can't ever say that I didn't give it my best shot.

So that's my news of 2012 so far. My adventures in self-publishing and discovering myself as a writer continues....

The Sands Of Time is running to schedule (finally) and will be out on 31st January. And then I'll be working on Book Three, and also The Eye Of The Storm series (brand new paranormal erotic romance about werewolves and thunderstorms -- yey!).
All of Erika & Elysa's current eBooks will remain available as they are now. Their scheduled upcoming works will need to be rethought -- I was struggling with them anyway, I'm afraid, because I was writing too much. This was a very hard decision to make, and hopefully this news doesn't break anyone's heart (lol, yes, that was said in jest).

Hope you've all had a great start to 2012 so far :)

Dianna x

More news as soon as available.

1. As a publisher, we'd like to try out the new Amazon KDP Select programme, which makes our books available to Amazon Prime customers for free. We're only going to try this out with one or two titles initially to see how it works, and we'd like On The Night Bus to be the first one..

As a result of their clause of exclusivity, we've had to take the sample of that book out ofBound (erotic tales of love and lust). In the end, we decided to pull the book altogether as some of the details in it regarding our books have been altered anyway. So it'll take a few weeks for it to disappear entirely from retailers.

In its place, we've brought out Giving In (Three erotic tales of subtle submission). This is our three Quick Bite stories in one bundle for $1.49 (the same price as Bound was). If you bought Bound, don't worry, none of the stories have changed (and you have the added bonus of the poetry and free excerpts), so there's no need for you to buy Giving In, as there's nothing new in it. If you were thinking of buying Bound, you can have Giving Ininstead.

Giving In can currently be found here on Amazon, on Smashwords, and will be available from other retailers shortly.

2. Because of having to sort out all the above and the extra time it took, On The Night Buswill now be published on 20th Dec.

3. 'Til Death Do Us Part, is today ranked #53 in Romance-Gothic on the Amazon.co.uk Kindle chart :)   It's always nice to be in the top 100, no matter how short a time for :)  Also, a small paperback version of this book will be trialled ... more news on that in a few days.

4. The Sands Of Time is most likely to be postponed until 31st January 2012, although this should be the final postponement now. It's a shame, but there were so many other things that needed to be put in place first before Christmas (and the Christmas rush) that it needed to be done.

5. We have defined our "special edition paperbacks" and what they mean. This is something we will be introducing more of in 2012, as a direct result of experimenting with the paperback versions of The Witching Pen and Bound, as well as noting what our parent imprint Bitten Fruit Books have been trialling over this year. Take a look here: http://www.satinsmoke.com/buying-our-books.html

That's it for now! Thanks for reading, and we'll be back soon with more news :)

And it kicks off with Book One: The Witching Pen. Read all about it HERE, including download links. This new, fast-paced paranormal romance is currently available for the introductory price of ONLY $0.99

This offer's from Lulu.com, where you can save an additional 15% the paperback (it's already at 15% off, so this is a bargain). Valid 'til 15th August.

All details are posted up at our blog http://www.blog.satinsmoke.com/2011/07/special-offer-on-bound-erotic-tales-of.html