Well with my main genre (cosy murder mystery) I'm still half thinking of going the traditional route. I'm not quite sure if my last novel gets across the line in terms of quality. I like it, but it was a Nano novel so isn't super long. Still it's quite a neat little mystery in the Agatha Christie vein.

But in your case I would definitely take up that offer.

The erotic thing - ironically my fifth book written but first published - started out as a joke for old school friends. A lot of characters in it are based on people we know and there are loads of references. I think because I had friends interested in it, it gave me the motivation to finish it.

It also didn't really end up that erotic. I found that when push came to shove, I actually couldn't bring myself to type a word for the male member. So basically the sex scenes are as though they were written by Sister Vanilla the Trappist nun.

Anyway I have one more erotic romance idea that may end up as a novella, not sure yet, and after that I think I'll stick with murder mystery.

I did print a sample of novel three via Lulu (but it's not publicly accessible and still needs a ton of work). It is super, super exciting seeing your own work in "book" form.