Marketing with Mandy~Aphrodite’s Apples Publishing Part II
Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Aphrodite’s Apples.
I remember way back when…in the summer of ‘05, first hearing the rumor of Aphrodite’s Apples on a Star Wars fanfic site. My faithful beta, PG, now known as Kayleigh Jamison, filled me in on the concept and asked if I wanted to submit a proposal. Sure, I figured. Why not? I’d just started writing erotica and hadn’t ever sent anything out into the wide world except my fanfiction. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
Heather and Kayleigh, AA’s owner and chief editor, accepted my novel, The Summoner, on three sample chapters and the promise that, ‘More good stuff was gonna happen.’ LOL I had no idea that such faith was an exception – not a rule – in the publishing industry.
Since then, I’ve had my fair share of acceptances from other publishers, and perhaps more than my fair share of rejections…but I’ll always remember AA as being my first. The first ones to say, ‘Yes, we want your story.’ So, no matter how often I stray, I’ll continue to reserve some of my work for the wonderful ladies at AA. ‘Cause that’s my way of saying, ‘Thanks for believing in me before anyone else did.’ J
