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Maliven is an independent marketplace for adult fiction. Authors set their own prices, keep 70% of every sale, and publish without content restrictions on legal fiction.

Maliven is an independent marketplace for adult fiction. Authors set their own prices, keep 70% of every sale, and publish without content restrictions on legal fiction. No exclusivity. No content scanning. No algorithm deciding whether your work deserves to be seen.

If you've been burned by platforms that dungeon your books, freeze your royalties, or ban your account over fiction they find uncomfortable, this page explains how Maliven works differently and why.

Royalties

You keep 70% of every sale. Maliven takes 30%. That split is fixed, published, and permanent. It applies to every book at every price point. There is no delivery fee, no tiered structure based on pricing, and no adjustment based on how many other authors are on the platform.

For comparison: Amazon KDP pays 70% only on books priced between $2.99 and $9.99, minus a delivery fee calculated per megabyte. Books priced below $2.99 earn 35%. Draft2Digital takes 10% but the retailers they distribute to take additional cuts, bringing the effective author royalty to roughly 58-60%.

On Maliven, if you price a short at $0.99 or a novel at $12.99, you earn 70% either way. The math is simple because it should be.

How Payments Work

When you earn a sale, your payout goes directly to your account. You can receive it through apps like Strike, Cash App, or PayPal and convert to dollars instantly. The whole process takes minutes.

We built our payment system so that no processor, bank, or third party can freeze your earnings or refuse to work with us because of what you write. This matters because payment processors have a history of pressuring platforms to remove adult content. PayPal nearly shut down Smashwords in 2012 over fiction categories it found objectionable. Stripe has similar content policies. Credit card companies have forced platforms to scrub entire genres overnight.

On Maliven, that lever doesn't exist. The payment infrastructure is independent by design. Your earnings flow directly from the platform to you, through whichever app you prefer, without a middleman who gets to decide whether your fiction is acceptable. You get paid. That's it.

Setting up your payment address takes about two minutes. We have step-by-step guides for every supported app, and if you get stuck, we'll walk you through it personally.

Content Policy

All legal fiction is welcome on Maliven. That sentence is the entire content policy in spirit, but here's what it means in practice.

Fiction is untouchable. No story you publish on Maliven can result in a strike, a suspension, or a ban. Your fiction cannot be removed because someone found it offensive, because a category made someone uncomfortable, or because a content reviewer decided your work crossed a subjective line. Taboo, monster, mind control, incest, noncon, dubcon, horror erotica, breeding, transformation, harem: these are categories here, not violations.

We don't scan your uploads. There is no automated system reading your manuscripts and flagging keywords. There is no AI detection running on your stories. There is no content review queue where a moderator decides whether your fiction is acceptable. You upload, you publish. Your work goes live.

We operate on the AO3 trust model. We assume good faith. If a reader reports a specific concern about a piece of content, we investigate. If no one reports anything, no one is looking. We don't go searching for problems in your catalog. This is the same approach Archive of Our Own has used successfully for over fifteen years: trust authors to tag honestly, trust readers to filter what they want, and only intervene when someone raises a legitimate issue.

Strikes are for behavior, not fiction. The three-strike system applies exclusively to behavioral violations:

  • Uploading cover images depicting minors in sexual contexts (images, not fiction)
  • Uploading non-consensual intimate images of real people
  • Plagiarizing another author's work
  • Attempting to hack or exploit the platform
  • Harassing other users

Each strike comes with a clear written explanation of what happened and why. Each strike can be appealed. First strike is a warning. Second strike is a warning with notice that a third means removal. Third strike triggers removal with a final appeal window. The entire process is transparent and documented.

What will never appear on that list: anything you wrote in a story.

Author Profiles

Every author on Maliven gets a real profile page. Your bio, your pronouns, your avatar, and dedicated link fields for everywhere else you exist online:

  • Personal website
  • Your store (Gumroad, Lemonsqueezy, your own site)
  • Patreon, Ko-fi, or SubscribeStar
  • Amazon author page
  • Twitter / X
  • Bluesky
  • Tumblr
  • AO3 profile

All of these are visible on your public author page. When readers discover your work on Maliven, they can find you everywhere else with one click. We don't hide your links. We don't bury them in settings. We don't make you fight the platform to connect with the people who love your writing.

Your readers are yours. Every tool we build is designed to make that relationship stronger, not to siphon it off for ourselves.

No Exclusivity

You can sell the same work on Maliven and on Amazon and on Draft2Digital and on your own website and anywhere else you want. Simultaneously. Forever. We will never ask you to remove your books from other platforms as a condition of publishing here.

This is the opposite of how Kindle Unlimited works, where enrollment requires 90-day exclusivity windows that auto-renew unless you manually opt out. On Maliven, your distribution decisions are yours. We compete for your catalog by being a good platform, not by locking you in.

AI Policy

Maliven is tool-agnostic. If you write with AI assistance, you're welcome. If you write entirely by hand, you're welcome. If you use speech-to-text, a ghostwriter, or a ouija board, you're welcome.

When you upload a book, there's an optional AI disclosure field. You can indicate whether AI tools were used in the writing process. This disclosure is visible to readers on the book's page. We include it because we believe in transparency, and because readers appreciate knowing. But it's optional, and no enforcement action is ever taken based on how a story was created.

Getting Started

  1. Create a free account
  2. Fill out your author profile (bio, links, avatar)
  3. Upload your first book (cover, manuscript, description, categories, tags, price)
  4. Set up your payment address for payouts
  5. Publish

Your book goes live immediately. No review queue. No waiting period. No approval process.

Questions

If something isn't covered here, reach out at malivenbooks@proton.me. Inquiries are welcome and we respond as soon as we can.