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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.

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From:

desayunoencama.livejournal.com

Curiously, one place where mainstream publishers are having a tremendous amount of success with gay-male characters, themes, and authors is YA.

FWIW.

And these books are often crossing over to an adult readership, nostalgic about high school

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mroctober.livejournal.com

Yeah there is some success with YA, but most of the gay fic titles are pretty categorized as drama books as opposed to genre fic.

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