It's A Dirty Job...Writing Porn For Fun and Profit! Includes Paying Markets! [Paperback]

Katy Terrega (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 1999

Fact is, writing porn is fun! It's also one of the easier markets to crack and make money at while you're still honing your skills. "It's A Dirty Job..." is one of the only resources that can teach you everything you need to know to create your stories and target your markets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 197 pages
• Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.; 2nd edition (October 6, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929072236
• ISBN-13: 978-1929072231
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,260,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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109 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected ;-(, November 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: It's A Dirty Job...Writing Porn For Fun and Profit! Includes Paying Markets! (Paperback)

I write Porn for the Internet and other places. Unlike the author of this book, I can't claim that it's my full time job, but I do get paid for writing porn along with straight fiction and non-fiction. I often read books about writing to see if I can learn something new and useful. This book was really disappointing.

I find it dificult to understand why anyone would offer a book about porn writing that contains no examples of erotic writing; no information about the structure and requirements for popular porn categories; and, nothing that indicates the person ever wrote a porn story except her saying so. In fact, there is little in the way of writing examples of any kind in the book. For the most part the book offers homilies such as "... a story must have a beginning, middle and end" and not much more. I felt the sections on writing could easily have come from a high school course.

The paying markets section was an even bigger disappointment and caused me to wonder about the author's qualifications. The author claims to be published in Playgirl, Score, Gallery and Huster. Yet, when we look at the paying markets sections and the writers guideline section, we find no mention of these magazines. I'm not saying the author wasn't published in these magazines, but it's odd that she wouldn't provide information about places where she says she was paid for her writing. Providing the Corporate mailing address for Gallery and nothing else (like a person to send stories) is less information than I could get from just picking up a copy of the magazine in the newstand. I found better editorial information for Gallery and the other sources the author indicates paid her from reference material in my local library.

The paying markets section and writers guidelines is a hodge podge of entries. There are only 22 of them in this section. What's worse, the same two editors appear as the person to send material for about half the entries. Since the guidelines were the same for the different editors including a sarcastic comment attributed to one of the editors, it would have seemed that they could have been grouped together by editor although this would have made the section even skimpier than it already is.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Does this person write erotica?, October 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: It's A Dirty Job...Writing Porn For Fun and Profit! Includes Paying Markets! (Paperback)

Aside from the fact that this book is four years old and completely outdated as a market resource, the author's work hasn't appeared anywhere for at least as many years. Look to other "experts" before you invest in this no-longer-viable resource.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read for Finding Basic Information on Writing Porn, November 28, 2001

By A Customer

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This review is from: It's A Dirty Job...Writing Porn For Fun and Profit! Includes Paying Markets! (Paperback)

Terrega's book "It's a Dirty Job..." was by no means meant to be the only source used when you are learning to write. It is however, a nice sound mini-reference book for finding beginning information on writing. Although a little skimpy in the section on paying markets, If you need a quick answer on the technicalities of writing porn, then this book is for you.