Attention m/m novelists

[veronica_rich]

Yes, those of you with publishing contracts to sell m/m books starring OMCs - if you would care to render your opinion on something related.

A friend wants to know if you think repurposed slash fanfic could ever go as mainstream as 50 Shades has for het erotica (I don't know if she means any m/m or m/m erotica; you'd have to ask her, really). I'm not an author, so the opinion I gave isn't informed - do you all have any?

Comments

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Yes, BDSM aspect aside, "50 Shades" is basically Mills and Boon. (In fairness, I haven't read it, but I have read a very detailed blog about it which made me decide not to.) ;)

Possibly a m/m romance (not necessarily particularly well written but with a classic romance storyline) could be a breakthrough success if the m/m aspect was perceived in the same way as the BDSM one - as the exotic, forbidden ingredient that makes it different from all the other romances on the shelves. Not ideal, but if it gets readers to expand their horizons and possibly read other, better stories, it could work out well. :)

[johnnypenn.livejournal.com]

I would hope that the m/m relationship would be treated like the tradition m/f relationship in most main stream novel's.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I would hope so too. But if a reader picks up a m/m novel out of curiosity and likes it, that can only help to destigmatise it in the eyes of the straight public.

[johnnypenn.livejournal.com]

Indeed. unless it's a badly written m/m book and then they think that's actually what happens in RL.