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

[pandorasvase.livejournal.com]

mmmm... I want know what you have read in that blur LOL

And I agree with you. Please, publishers, use the right genre. It's very disappointing buy a book and read something that is not that I wanted. Not for the plot or the characters but the wrong label!

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't agree more. I don't care for menages either (don't ask me why I was talked into writing one, trust me it is the only one). I know several that mark them as gay romances and it irritates me as well.

Shawn Lane

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is definitely not a gay romance. It might have some m/m contact and may even have a loving, committed relationship between the men. But the moment a third person of the female gender enters the picture and becomes a committed member and not just a quickie, it becomes a menage. If she's just a quickie, one-night-stand kind of a fling, fair enough to list it as a gay romance with a caveat of a menage romp.

While I like to write and read menages, I do want my stories properly listed by genre.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It depends on the book, certainly. If she's just having sex with two men, then that's menage,but a menage can also be labelled m/m - m/m/f or whatever. A good example is Madelynne Ellis' Gentlemans Wager and its sequel, where the men were in a relationship before, and one of the men is chasing the other - the woman gets in the way and it turns into a 3 way thing - even when they have sex, it's as much about the men pleasing each other as much as it is pleasing her.

It seems to me - if he's already in a gay relationship when the girl arrives, then yes, it's just become bisexual and m/m/f.

It sounds ghastly though and I wouldn't touch it with a faery bargepole.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

There is no love for the B in GLBT...

But I agree, m/m/f is not m/m, usually.

[leeteng.livejournal.com]

Not new here, Elisa. I was fooled a few times and just delete the e-book when it turned up M/M/F! Too mad to even keep it! Does not matter if it is well written. I just do not go for M/M/F.

[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