The EREC survey
Aug. 27th, 2008 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesEmily Veinglory is running a poll for erotic romance writers over at the EREC blog:
http://www.erecsite.com/2008/08/ten-questions-for-erotic-romance.html
My answers are duplicated under the cut -- any comments from you lot, either as writers or as readers?
1) Would you object to other people calling your work erotica?
No.
2) Would you object to other people calling your work pornography?
Depends on whether they think "porn" is a description or an insult.
3) Approximately how many books (novella or longer) have you published?
11
4) With how many different publishers?
1. Boring, aren't I?
Actually, 2, as the first two books were initially published by a tiny epub, before being picked up by my current publisher.
5) Have you published in ebook format? If so are you basically satisfied, or dissatisfied with your epublishing experiences?
Yes, satisfied.
6) Are you published with a large commercial press (e.g. one that pays an advance over $1000 and produces offset print runs)? If you are not, is this kind of publishing one of your career goals?
No, yes. However, the latter is only going to happen when I learn to like writing m/f, or the large commercial presses learn to like m/m.
I have had stuff published by such a press, but only as a short story in an anthology.
7) Do you like Poser covers? Yes, no, sometimes?
Sometimes. When they're well done, they can be good, but not many are well done.
8) Do you like mantitty covers? If so, with or without chest hair?
In moderation, to both questions. A light sprinkling of hair, failing that, none; no hearthrugs.
9) What romance/erotica blog to you read most frequently? (Not including EREC).
Dear Author and Smart Bitches.
10) What erotic romance sub-genre do you think might be the next big thing?
Haven't a clue.
http://www.erecsite.com/2008/08/ten-questions-for-erotic-romance.html
My answers are duplicated under the cut -- any comments from you lot, either as writers or as readers?
1) Would you object to other people calling your work erotica?
No.
2) Would you object to other people calling your work pornography?
Depends on whether they think "porn" is a description or an insult.
3) Approximately how many books (novella or longer) have you published?
11
4) With how many different publishers?
1. Boring, aren't I?
Actually, 2, as the first two books were initially published by a tiny epub, before being picked up by my current publisher.
5) Have you published in ebook format? If so are you basically satisfied, or dissatisfied with your epublishing experiences?
Yes, satisfied.
6) Are you published with a large commercial press (e.g. one that pays an advance over $1000 and produces offset print runs)? If you are not, is this kind of publishing one of your career goals?
No, yes. However, the latter is only going to happen when I learn to like writing m/f, or the large commercial presses learn to like m/m.
I have had stuff published by such a press, but only as a short story in an anthology.
7) Do you like Poser covers? Yes, no, sometimes?
Sometimes. When they're well done, they can be good, but not many are well done.
8) Do you like mantitty covers? If so, with or without chest hair?
In moderation, to both questions. A light sprinkling of hair, failing that, none; no hearthrugs.
9) What romance/erotica blog to you read most frequently? (Not including EREC).
Dear Author and Smart Bitches.
10) What erotic romance sub-genre do you think might be the next big thing?
Haven't a clue.
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Date: 2008-08-28 01:28 am (UTC)Not too long ago, erotic historicals were rare. Now, I'm seeing more and more of them.
And historicals just can't be all that easy to write either. There's a lot of research involved, and a lot of readers will know if an author didn't do that research.
In addition, I think that we'll be seeing more m/m interaction appearing in books from NY pubs. Oh, not full out gay romances (yet), but I think we'll see more m/m interaction in menage stories.
BevQB
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Date: 2008-08-30 03:25 pm (UTC)I think m/m in ostensibly m/f/m menage is going to be one route into NY for m/m, but from a purely personal point of view (as reader as well as writer), I'm hoping that they won't stop at a nice safe mfm where they can pretend it isn't really Teh Ghey.