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 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.