Marketing with Mandy~Aphrodite’s Apples Publishing Part I
Q: For anyone who doesn’t know who Aphrodite’s Apples is and what they do, could you please tell them a little bit about the company and yourself?
A: Hello, I’m HS Kinn, President of Aphrodite’s Apples. About me? I’m a former teacher and speech-language pathologist. I have been writing since I was a kid, and won awards for my poetry, even back then. I edited my first antho of poetry in college, at age 18. I’ve also sung lead vocals in a goth band! The writing bug has never left me though, and so I started Aphrodite’s Apples with some friends of mine. We were all in a critique group together online. Some of us had tried conventional publishing already, some hadn’t. Some of us had sampled eBooks, and we were of the opinion, “We could do better.” Egotistical, I know. And we’ve since found some really great books and authors at other houses. I think the moral of that story is that it’s not necessarily the size of the publisher that determines the quality of the work. It’s also very humbling to learn how much work goes into every title that you read. We opened in July of 2006, and started out with a handful of erotic romances. Now we have over 30 authors on site. We’ve also expanded from our general emphasis on romance and erotica, to include general fiction.
