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

[(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

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I have two of your books still to read, Sorcerer's Lover and Stone of Wrath... what should I read first? :-) I'm joking, I know that it's not among them, I saw your menages title, but truth be told, I didn't buy it... and the publisher was very clear in tagging it a M/M/F. If the menages is well written I have no problem to read it, but when faced with the alternative to buy a gay romance or a menages, for me there is no choice.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I buy the gay romances too. But certain publishers (I shall refrain from naming them) lump their menages in with gay romances. As soon as I see a chick on the cover though I stay away. But there was a book recently on a certain publisher's list (okay on of mine) that showed only men on the cover and I almost bought it. Then I read the blurb and realized there was a woman who "completes" them. That's fine if that's what you want to read, but I don't. And honestly, I am not a hypocrite just because I wrote one,ha ha!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

:-) I'm like you: first check the cover - no woman checked - second check the blurb - no female name checked - third check the tag - no "menages" warning checked! Then sometime I vouch the author: there was a new book from an author I like days ago; the story has a woman in the middle, but in the blurb it was not clear if she was in the middle of the relationship. The cover didn't help. The publisher, being almost all LGBT, didn't tag. And so I bought the book, and happily discovered that it was a full M/M, and the female was only a friend. I wrote the review and underlight the fact. People said that they had my same problem and bought the book after reading the review.