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

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I get impatient at those too, and mislabelling in general. If it's two guys who are both sexing up the girl, there's nothing gay about that. I notice the blurb said that the two men were together, but unless they're shown together, actually having sex With Each Other some significant number of times, then it's not primarily a gay book.

One has to wonder just what benefit the publishers think they'll get from mislabelling books, no matter what the deception might be. If book type A is labelled B, then fans of B will buy it and be disappointed (and probably angry at the deception), and fans of A won't buy it because they think it's B. So they've got people who won't like their book buying it and getting angry, and people who would have liked their book not buying it. So the point was... what again? [sigh]

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Maybe they didn't read the book they labelled? but no, I think they hope to reach a wider target, but you are right, I believe they only gain angry readers. Elisa

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

That's all I can think of too, that they're trying to reach the larger audience. I think the m/m audience is larger than the menage audience, so they went for the bigger of the two. But I don't see how that can benefit them if they just end up making people angry. How many of those people who wanted m/m and instead got menage which was primarily m/f will go away and never buy one of that publisher's books again? It's a ridiculous move for them to make; they're cutting their own throats, and all the while are probably patting themselves on the back over how "clever" they are with their marketing. :/

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I notice that lately this publisher is making some big mistakes, not only this one... they are big, no doubt, and for what I know, they have good deal with their authors, but I'm wondering what is happening behind the curtains, since some step they made are really bad. Elisa