Little rant

[reviews_and_ramblings]

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...

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

My guess would be the publisher wants to ca$h in on the 'fad' of m/m books and is hedging her (his?) bets by tucking a woman in.

Now, I've got a situation coming up in a story where m/m lovers do wind up with a woman. But it's a bit different and I hope my readers don't get upset.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

As I said, if the story is well written, I can read a menages, and then usually your publisher is very careful in tagging the book, no surprise with them. And also the main publisher they will merge with is good as well. Elisa

[leeteng.livejournal.com]

Oh Lee, I am upset as I have been waiting for your next release :(

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Well, this doesn't happen in Eye of the Storm, which is the new book due out January 1, so you don't need to worry anytime soon.

I've never set out to write formula romance, though. I think it's important to give my characters a believable happy-ever-after, and the best way for two men to be safe in the early 19th century is for at least one of them to be married to a woman they can both trust. Just bear in mind that "menage," in its broadest interpretation, doesn't necessarily mean 3 or more in a bed ... and that's all I'll say on that subject for now.

I have a completely different book for a different publisher in progress right now. There's a more-or-less bisexual chap in that one, but he's not one of the main characters.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

This is quite the way chose by Terry O'Reilly in Awakening (almost not the same) and I like that book. Elisa

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

But it depend how much different... give to Lee another chance :-) Elisa