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As a pure passion project, this can do great, and you can be very happy with the result, but if you want any level of results from your work (like viewership, growing a brand, reputation and money) then this is not the path if you are marketing the storywriting to men. Women read smut novels all day every day in public, with the families around, no one bats an eye, but men are visual creatures, and as someone who has read a couple dozen smut novels and novellas (i.e. a man that is far more likely to be interested in this becoming a book when compared to the vast majority of men), I don't see this having success purely based on the inability to market it. It's like trying to advertise car exhaust mufflers to women, it just isn't going to happen no matter how great the deal is. You need to keep your market avatar in mind with everything you do. I have been trying to figure out where the middle ground is between smut novel (what men don't respond to) and AVN (what men respond to but is highly taboo) as a new genre to launch something into as a writer myself, and after about 9 months I've still not figured that out...