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

[johnnypenn.livejournal.com]

I've read one or two good first person books in my life time, the default seems to be third person.

I think it's badly written because it was based off Twilight, and Twilight is badly written, there fore, badly written fan fic is turned into badly written original fic.

My problem is how the two character's had a Dom/Sub contract made up, and then the guy totally ignores everything and the girl is goes with it. You don't do that sort of thing. Not to mention, to all this vanilla people reading the book for kicks, they'll get the wrong idea about the BDSM community. It's not like that and the Author has the responsibility to do her research and do it the right way - treat it with respect - and not just because it adds an element of novelty to the book.

as an m/m writer who does write BDSM - that just disgusts me!

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

It's like the writer watched a few episodes of HBO's Real Sex and thought that made them an expert on BDSM.

[johnnypenn.livejournal.com]

I have never seen that show. But I agree with you.
I do a ton of research whenever I've a question about an aspect of BDSM before I even write it. and that's what this author should have done. I wish someone pointed that out before even publishing. It wouldn't have taken much to change/re-write that aspect of the story and make it a bit more realistic.