Not sure about writing, but if you want to get into drawing that kind of stuff you just open a Twitter/Deviantart/Tumblr, post non-commission work initially until you have a bit of a following and people asking to commission you will come themselves eventually. I worked that field for about half a year while I had nothing to do because I dropped out of college, and in that time got up to like 100k followers and a solid 400$ a month without advertising it much. I probably could have squeezed out more if I tried, but I didn't really feel like it haha

I have honestly thought about trying to make money this way. Maybe I'm just good at talking myself out of trying, but I found one good reason to think it'd be harder than it seems.

People say the book can even be bad, and they're half right. It's genre fiction, and those have a very specific style and convention unique to each genre. It's not just allowed to be bad, it's supposed to be - and in a very specific way. You need to be familiar with that to write to the audience's expectations. Being too unique and creative is not a good thing.

In other words, if you want to have any success writing gay minotaur smut, you have to first read enough gay minotaur smut to understand it. I couldn't force myself to read it, not because I'm judging, but I'm just not into it. It bored me too much and felt like a huge slog. But if you can read it you can write it, and the process of familiarizing yourself with that market should also help you figure out how to get discovered for that genre.

You write a book, then you self publish it on Amazon or whatever. Then you hope enough people read it to make it worth the time you spent writing it.

The actual trick to making bank is the fact that cultivation,progression fantasy,monster harem have a weird over lap in the audiobook space. It's why ever monster smut book is also a lit RPG these days.

It's basically become the cheap seasonal isakai of the audiobook world.

Monster harem progression fantasy audiobooks make bank and there sizeable studios that buy up anything remotely half assed or better.

You need to do well enough to get into the audiobook market with like royal guard. You can make a lot of money.

Motivation, mostly. I have half a dozen abandoned projects in writing, model building, miniature painting, electronics, programming.

I'm a man of many talents, and limited attention span.

Needs to be anthro is basically the loophole.

Well "anthro" in everyway that doesn't matter. So it slips by the censors.

Kind of a grey area, I think.

And grey areas are risky on that business. Amazon may or may not consider those banned, depending on which person and/or AI is examining your book, what day of the week it is, and whether or not Mercury is in retrograde. And if they decide it's banned, they take it down, you wasted all the effort of writing it, and your account gets a strike, maybe to get permabanned.

So it's generally a good idea to play it safe.

(Oh, you wanted an official ruling from Amazon about whether or not Sicilian Wolf bestiality is okay? Well fuck you! Because Amazon refuses to provide such clarity, and all of this is 90% based on trial and error -- what people have and haven't been banned for -- because Amazon's rules for NSFW content are opaque, mysterious, and constantly subject to change without notice. Have fun!)

A bit of an outlier in writing quality though

Same. 'Roll a d20 and add it to your perception skill stat. If it is higher than 16, turn to page 133; if lower, page 64."