because apparently there's way better Fanfic Without Serial Numbers out there?????? I mean, I haven't read the books, but that's what I've heard????
I hate it that the news media coverage is so SIMPERING.
Women reading porn? CLUTCH THE PEARLS.
First of all the romance market is HUGE.
Second of all, the m/m market has been steadily growing under the radar of the mainstream press AS YOU KNOW.
What the heck is going on? Are female journalists doing a better job with this than the male ones? Because the NY Times article about it made me throw up in my mouth. And that was by a woman.
Yes, romance is a dissed genre. Ho Hum;
Yes, women being interested in sex is EDGY. Ho Hum.
What the f is going ON with the coverage of this?
But more importantly -- what does this mean for the rest of us writing erotica? Is this a sign of better days?
I roll my eyes SO MUCH at the stupid snickering coverage tittering over women who like erotica. But I'm equally annoyed at the whole pull to publish deal.
I'm out of step; I was taught you don't sell fanfic, but seems I'm way behind the times.
"I was taught you don't sell fanfic" -- That's what's such a, what. Such a LEAPFROG about this.
It's unabashedly Twilight fanfic with the names changed, and it's an AU, because there are no vampires.
Plus it's apparently a BDSM universe?
What's unusual about its reception to me is not that someone decided to sell fanfic after attempting to file off the serial numbers, with greater or lesser success. I think that happens. No. More accurately, I KNOW that happens.
But that it's het erotica. With BDSM. And that no one is bothering to conceal that it started out as Twilight fanfic. And yet a mainstream publisher published it, and I guess it's selling well? Is this a romance publisher? Who is it? And the movie option???? BOGGLES.
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Um. I got nothin.
How did this get bought? And optioned for a MOVIE? Do you know the story?
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Can't see the movie being made, even though it's been optioned, but eh, who knows.
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because apparently there's way better Fanfic Without Serial Numbers out there?????? I mean, I haven't read the books, but that's what I've heard????
I hate it that the news media coverage is so SIMPERING.
Women reading porn? CLUTCH THE PEARLS.
First of all the romance market is HUGE.
Second of all, the m/m market has been steadily growing under the radar of the mainstream press AS YOU KNOW.
What the heck is going on? Are female journalists doing a better job with this than the male ones? Because the NY Times article about it made me throw up in my mouth. And that was by a woman.
Yes, romance is a dissed genre. Ho Hum;
Yes, women being interested in sex is EDGY. Ho Hum.
What the f is going ON with the coverage of this?
But more importantly -- what does this mean for the rest of us writing erotica? Is this a sign of better days?
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I'm out of step; I was taught you don't sell fanfic, but seems I'm way behind the times.
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It's unabashedly Twilight fanfic with the names changed, and it's an AU, because there are no vampires.
Plus it's apparently a BDSM universe?
What's unusual about its reception to me is not that someone decided to sell fanfic after attempting to file off the serial numbers, with greater or lesser success. I think that happens. No. More accurately, I KNOW that happens.
But that it's het erotica. With BDSM. And that no one is bothering to conceal that it started out as Twilight fanfic. And yet a mainstream publisher published it, and I guess it's selling well? Is this a romance publisher? Who is it? And the movie option???? BOGGLES.
What am I missing?????