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reviews_and_ramblings ([personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-12-12 02:41 pm

Little rant

Please, publishers (general but I have a clear name in mind...) if you release a story where a woman is having a lot of sex with two men, please, please, don't try to pass it as a M/M, please don't put it under the "gay/lesbian" genre... if you are really convinced that the gay romance or M/M romance is a passing fashion, and that the future is a menage between a woman and two men, so, be true to your claim, and use your "menage a trois or more" genre, and let the "poor" gay romance alone in their "reserve".

If you are wondering why I'm ranting, well, enough to say that I just read an unbelievable blurb tagged as M/M...

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. And not it's not a menage romp in a almost all gay romance story. Truth be told, the publisher tagged it also as a menages, and so half the work was done right. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe if there is a relationship M/M/F it can be consider a gay romance, but in this case, from the blurb, this is quite sure a M/F/M, and I don't want to spend my money to search with a lantern the little M/M relationship inside the book. And since it's not the first time, now I don't trust no more this publisher when it uses the M/M tag.

[identity profile] luscious-words.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I would accept an M/M/F menage tagged as both a menage and a gay romance. I know I have a few stories I'm writing that are M/M/F and M/F/M within the same story, but I clearly consider them menages.

It's a shame that all the publishers are not following the same guidelines for the genres.

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
> It's a shame that all the publishers are not following the same guidelines for the genres.

it would be very useful.

Elisa