Big Things Coming

I've been silent on the website front for a few months as I've been involving myself in the local photography community in Winnipeg...building a skillset and networking with other photographers and models. It's been a very educational process, and as someone who is naturally introverted, it's been a very social one as well. I must say that it's strange to now be 35 but hanging around hot 19-24 year-olds that I never would have dreamed of being around when I was that age. I definitely wasted my youth!

@BrandyReicker, shot by Yours Truly

This past weekend I got to participate in a group photoshop featuring implied nude models, and as luck would have it the beautiful, sexy, busty and super-cool Brandy Reicker was there, and I got to shoot her!

Even better was Brandy's interest in Mall of Erotica! We're currently in talks but there's a good chance that we're going to be seeing a LOT more of Brandy in the coming weeks (guess how the title "Big Things Coming" relates to her ;) )!

The month of March is going to see my first-ever erotica released for sale on MoE: an erotic photocomic (or as I like to call them "photoGraphic Novels"). I won't reveal any details yet, but the theme is going to superheroines and erotic humiliation, so stay tuned!

Organizing these shoots is hard work, especially now that I live outside of Winnipeg and studio space is very expensive. And when you're paying models too, you have to spend a fair bit of time saving up between shoots.

All that being said, I'm hoping my endeavours with this site start paying off and I can start buying better equipment or even try to get my hands on some dedicated space to shoot in.

While you're waiting for my first erotic pieces, we have all sorts of new, erotic ebooks for sale at Mall of Erotica from our ever-growing legion of erotic content providers, such as the steamy BDSM serial Bound to the Blind: Day 1, where a woman has to bail her brother out of trouble by agreeing to be a millionaire's slave.

Stay tuned, folks...big things coming soon!

eBooks Galore and more!

It's been an interesting week.

Back when I was doing my pilot project in May/June, I was approached by Rachel & Carl from Rachel's Lace E-Rotica about participating. They didn't join the pilot but I re-contacted them to see if they were interested now that we were live and had some sales and other content providers. They were interested and proceeded to create our first eBook store: Rachel's Lace: e-rotica! And while I expected them to only have a couple of books to put up, they've put up 11!

And that's not all! They also invited two other eBook authors who have begun the process of setting up shops...so the site is growing and that's great news!

I've been making little changes to the appearance of the products page and added some additional functionality to the shops page. I'll be turning my attention now to allowing multiple files associated with a product (currently it's just one). That way it will allow eBook authors to provide the popular various formats (ePub, .mobi, etc.) to the customer when they buy the item!

eBooks and More

So my first eBook content provider will be opening shop in the next day or so. It's exciting and it's been a learning experience as I've gotten some good feedback on how eBook authors would like to use the site and the sort of changes I need to make to better support eBooks.

I also got an email from an EU-based erotica producer...they had several questions that my FAQ's didn't answer which was good to get as just about all my content producers have been American and didn't require the same type of information as he did. So I've been updating the FAQ to include his questions (and the appropriate answers). Unfortunately the draconian cotent restrictions I presently have to abide by are hurting his ability to publish a lot of his content at Mall of Erotica.

One of the interesting challenges from the eBook community is the ability to have several formats of the book (epub, mobi, html, text, etc.) available for download by purchasers of a single product. I hadn't originally considered this and as such the data model is currently "one file per product". I can change it, but it will require a fair bit of recoding and data conversion, but maybe now is the time to do it, as it's early enough in the game to be making big changes like that.

Besides, it'll end up being more normalized, and normal is good.