I just read a blog on how well the “50 Shades of Gray” books are faring… very well I might add. http://thatfantasyblog.com/2012/06/18/erotic-book-beats-potter-to-be-fastest-selling-paperback/
After reading this blog and spending the last two weeks hearing about the Gray book from all of my friends and co-workers who just HAD to read it, I’m wondering what it says for all of us struggling writers. Is it hope? Is it frustration? Jealousy? Inspiration? Do we have to write smut books (or mummy porn as the other blog says) in order to get our books to sell? [not that there is anything wrong with that – a lot of my all time favorite books are smutty and favorite authors write them] Aside of the sex and the curiosity factor, why has this book done so well?
Ok – I have not read the book. I don’t know if it is well written, if it is intriguing, if it is complete crap, or what. I have to think if it sold 100,000 last week alone that it can’t be all crap. There has to be something more than sex here. Is it timing/luck/well written and a bit of elbow grease all rolled into one mega-success-pack?
Don’t you just love blogs that ask all the questions, but don’t provide any answers?
I don’t have any. If I did, I would have written and published a 50 Shades of Book Sells already myself!
Lynn Michaels Writes 
It’s like hitting the lottery. Your book gets in front of the right person who tells their friends about it, and it all snowballs. 50 shades does a couple of things, it taps into all the twilight fans who wanted to see a more graphic twilight. (It was originally a twilight fan fiction book). It touches on a taboo subject. It is sexy. It makes mommies twitter. And, thanks to kindles, a person can read it and no one knows what they’re reading.