Re: Re: Better as e-?

From: "Emily"
>
>> Er...   Emily,
>>
>> While perhaps not arguing with your basic point, what about
>> Harlequin in the US and Mills and Boon i nthe UK?
>
> Even the very new hot lines like Harlequin Blaze are frankly 
> tame
> (well, I was disappointed anyway after setting my expectations 
> at
> ebook levels).  Their sex scenes involve indicating their was 
> sex and
> a climax did occur somehow.  Without going into detail on what 
> I
> presume is an all-ages list, that doesn't fill the need for a 
> large
> proportion of the modern readership who want to see romance 
> expressed
> sexually in some books, and in diverse ways.  I am not aware of 
> Mills
> and Boon having a hot line where you would get more than a coy
> paragraph or two.
>
> I would add to my list other niche romance such as the 
> gay-romance-
> for-women I write, polyamory, older people and BDSM etc.  Self 
> help
> has a similar advantage online, because if you are dealling 
> with an
> embarrassing problem often the range of self-help books is 
> small and
> the desire to have an over the coutner transaction with a 
> pimply
> youth and have the book out on the mantle is low ;)
>
>

emily,

I more or less answered this to Brenna, but I am being educated 
about the field - thank you both.   Perhaps it was only a brief 
excursion, but I am sure M&B did produce an erotica line, though 
it may not have been the description at the time and may have 
been short lived.

As you say ebooks are particularly suited to niches which are 
less suited to public display;  the 'plain brown envelope' of 
earlier years.

Joseph 


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