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Selling Books with GLBTQ Characters

Why can't you sell your "gay" book into the mainstream? Here are some thoughts on it.

Comments

[julesjones]

Yup, but because we also talk about it in mixed venues online, some of the romance folk who aren't familiar with fanfic have picked up the term, and are using it without really understanding where it comes from or that it's not identical to "gay romance" or "homoerotic romance". (A lot of my slash stories are *not* romance in the way a romance fan understands the term.) I suppose I should rethink using it in my LibraryThing profile, but I subconsciously expect the majority of people reading that to understand the context.

M/m has been part of the Loose Id lineup since the beginning. I don't normally talk about this in public because it Sets A Bad Example To Young Writers, but I was actively recruited by one of the editors who was looking for material for the LGBT section of the catalogue before they opened their doors.

(Don't try this at home, kids. Not all approaches from strange agents/editors are scams, but a lot of them are. I knew how to run a basic sanity check.)

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

"Want some candy little author..."

Basically, there isn't a good name for it. Gay Romance is not the same as Romances written for women featurning gay characters. And homoerotic is misleading as some of it is as tame as a 70's era romance novel.