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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

Re: small press publisher

[julesjones]

Yahoogroup for writers and fans of m/m:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homopromo/

Also worth sending information to places like Forbidden Fruit:
http://www.forbiddenfruitzine.com/

I can probably think of more places when it's not quarter to midnight here...

GLBT romance venues

[duskpeterson.livejournal.com]

While not wanting to turn this into a pimp fest, there are so many folks posting here whom I know from the Erotic Romance Writers Forum that I'll mention that as another major source of information on romance, erotic romance, and erotica, especially GLBT. One of the forum's founders is the editor of Forbidden Fruit, and much of the homopromo crowd hang out there as well.

Oh, and five of us were sitting in the front row at alg's talk at Con-txt. :)

http://veinglory.8.forumer.com/index.php

Some of the members of ERWF went on to organize this group:

Erotic Romance Writers International
http://www.erwintl.com/

If you prefer an e-mail list, Forbidden Fruit runs one:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slashandhack/

And this might be of help to you:

http://www.romancewiki.com/GLBT

And here's a place where there's a crossover between erotic romance writers and erotica writers, many of whom produce GLBT stories.

http://eroticauthorsassociation.com/

In all of the above places, authors can promote their work; you might also enjoy getting to know writers working in this field. I'm sure they'd enjoy getting to know you.

You're going to see the same names over and over at most of these groups, so I'd better emphasize: This is only a small portion of the GLBT romance crowd. There are plenty of other GLBT romance writers out there who just don't happen to be hanging out at these particular venues. However, I don't know of any other GLBT romance venues that are as active as these are.