2007 Passionate Plume Awards

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Novella: First Place - Male Call, by Denise A. Agnew
Second Place - Rescue Me, by Anna Leigh Keaton
Third Place - Hot Down Under, by Susan Lyons

Honorable Mention - Second Chance Christmas, by Mackenzie McKade
Honorable Mention - Desert Heat, by Leigh Wyndfield

Contemporary: First Place - Wicked Ties, by Shayla Black
Second Place - Roped, by Ann Jacobs
Third Place - Suite Seventeen, by Portia da Costa

Honorable Mention - Twin Fantasies, by Opal Carew
Honorable Mention - Nothing To Lose, by Mechele Armstrong

Historical: First Place - At Love’s Command, by Samantha Kane
Second Place - Mirage, by Monica Burns
Third Place - Nicholas, by Elizabeth Amber

Honorable Mention - One Bashful Lady, by Brenda Williamson
Honorable Mention - Anchor and Storm, by Kate Poole

Futuristic / Fantasy / Sci-Fi: First Place - Tailspin, by Denise Rossetti
Second Place - Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind, by Karen Kelley
Third Place - Seducer, by Aubrey Ross

Honorable Mention - Settler’s Mine 2: The Lovers, by Mechele Armstrong
Honorable Mention - Born Again, by Rena Marks

Paranormal / TT: First Place - Mona Lisa Blossoming, by Sunny Chen
Second Place - Blood Rose, by Sharon Page
Third Place - Mystic’s Run, by Jory Strong

Honorable Mention - Ethereal Foes: The Dragon’s Demon, by Marie Harte
Honorable Mention - Blood Red, by Sharon Page

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Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm always for the "mining from inside" strategy. If you see the first Passionate Plume Awards (in 2006) there were only a M/M title (A bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach). This year there are a lot of menages, not of my appeal, but there are a lot of stories where the M/M romance of the threesome is very important in the story (like Samantha Kane for example). And Mackenzie MacKade, Anna Leigh Keaton, Jody Strong, are all erotic romance writer that this year wrote also full M/M romance. I was very disappointed to hear that Ellora's Cave editors believe that M/M romance is a temporary boom and that the future is on the M/F/M or M/M/F... in my case, if they follow this strategy, they will lose a reader. Elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I heard that about Ellora's Cave and was completely disgusted about it. Gay fiction isn't a "phase" and it doesn't go out of fashion in the same way that inspriational fiction or vampire stories might do. I find menage to be a genre that many publishers think is a good way to dip their toes into the market without actually embracing it. It's insulting, really because bisexuality is not at all the same thing.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Actually I don't know if since I don't like it, or if it is a real thing, but usually the quality of the menages romance I read is not very good. I found trouble to like the middle element in the threesome.

Elisa