The gap's been very slowly filling in for a while, and from both directions -- I can't remember now, but it may have been as far back as ConJose that I first went to a panel which discussed the problems of writing cross-genre spec-fic/romance if you're not familiar with both genres. But I think it's becoming much more obvious now that there's interesting territory there to play in, and writers and readers who want to play there because they see shiny things they want to play with.
Small presses on both sides of the genre divide have helped with that, by providing somewhere for readers and writers to find each other without having to overcome the barrier of showing that there's sufficient interest to make mass market publication viable. I was very fortunate with Loose Id -- they were new, but the owners had a solid grounding in epub erotic romance, *and* at least some of them were into spec-fic fandoms as well, so they understood the stuff I was writing. And epub doesn't have to worry about hitting the word count range that's currently commercially viable as a print edition -- an important consideration for anyone like me whose natural length is "novella".
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:58 pm (UTC)Small presses on both sides of the genre divide have helped with that, by providing somewhere for readers and writers to find each other without having to overcome the barrier of showing that there's sufficient interest to make mass market publication viable. I was very fortunate with Loose Id -- they were new, but the owners had a solid grounding in epub erotic romance, *and* at least some of them were into spec-fic fandoms as well, so they understood the stuff I was writing. And epub doesn't have to worry about hitting the word count range that's currently commercially viable as a print edition -- an important consideration for anyone like me whose natural length is "novella".