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As an artist who does erotica and a hobbyist writer who writes for fun/creative muscle flexing/self-therapy/personal demon exorcising, I myself am hoping to get my own erotica out there in published form, as a graphic novel or comic series. So I'll give you my own hearty handshake for your endeavors to come to light. It's a hard garden to hoe, trying to partition enough of "real life" (as well as fighting the inevitable backlash of people who only see sex in vanilla flavor) in order to devote the proper time to get our individual passions on paper, recognized, appreciated seriously and ultimately PAID FOR! Enough to earn a living with, at that!

Here's what I see, snort and drink for my dream...and these observances & maxims are mostly for myself in my own case, but you can take as many applicable grains as you need for your own joint...

- There's a market for everything.
- Other people are putting their shit out, so you can do the same.
- Other people are putting out both bullshit and templar and still get paid.
- There are a lot of amateur writers/artists doing this for the pure fun of it and while most ARE strictly amateur — you can tell in the writing — there are also LOTS of damn good shit out there that I would pay for, that are worth paying for. But since these people aren't going that route, then that should give you a heads up on your peer level. You should feel like you can go toe-to-toe with those heads before thinking about getting paid (respectably) for your joints...because editors who DO select stuff to publish don't play around in the kiddie pools.
- The above being said, if you know you're being lazy in reading other works, don't. Read everything you can professionally you have an interest in so you can really get the lay of the land. Read everything amateur you have an interest in so you can see the real differences between what gets chosen and why. Then read stuff so you can find out what gets your dick hard and how it's being written to GET your dick hard. Read other alternatives and other genres opposite and aside to what you're used to in order to get different perspectives on styles, forms and methods you can jack for your own mill grist.
- Wanda gave some good advice...I'll just stress that Lesson One and Lesson Two.

Anyways, I'm saying this for my benefit as well as for you...the thing that keeps me going is that, in my case for erotic comics and graphic art, I see people putting out CRAP for sale and heads are STILL buying it. So if they can get their shit out like that, then I know I can get my grind going. It's just a matter of the doing.