"I'll take erotic romance..." by Roberta Brown and Jina Bacarr
Dubious Virtue (love the name!) is the winner of yesterday's giveaway. She wins a signed copy of CARNAL DESIRES by Crystal Jordan. Enjoy!
My novel VAMPED is up for discussion today (the cover anyway!) at Book Nymph if anyone wants to swing by and check it out!
Here today we have literary agent Roberta Brown with the Brown Literary Agency and her author Jina Bicarr giving their take on erotic romance. Again, those who comment will be entered to win a little something special for their stockings this year - signed copies of Jina Bacarr's The Blonde Geisha and Spies, Lies, and Naked Thighs.
"I'll take erotic romance..."
An agent's and an author's POV
Hello Lucienne - thanks for inviting Jina Bacarr and me to blog!
I'm Roberta Brown with the Brown Literary Agency. I love hot books. I'm very
fond of erotica. I've read John Cleland's Fanny Hill and Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders. True classics, and when the novels were earliest released, they
were read by more men than women. In my opinion, good erotica isn't graphic,
lude, or positional. It's all based on seduction.
Author Arnold Haultain once said "A woman can say more in a sigh than a man
can say in a sermon." To me, an erotic novel is a blend of soft, deep,
throaty, passionate, and climactic sighs.
Erotica is also wonderfully sensual and smooth and makes the heart beat
faster. The stories are as visual and arousing as a soft whisper to the ear, an
unexpected kiss on the back of the neck, and the electric brush of hands. The
most timid reader can download an ebook, and someone more gregarious can act
out a chapter with a lover. Even if the novel doesn't have a happy ending,
you know the hero and heroine (or even a menage) are sexually satisfied!
I've always believed erotica authors have 'sexy' DNA. Erotica is a difficult
genre to write and write well. The 'hot erotic gene' is born in the writer's
blood. Even with the tightening economy, there remains a strong market for
erotica. Those who write it best will survive the cutbacks with publishers.
Hi, I'm Jina Bacarr, Spice author of The Blonde Geisha and coming in April
2009, Cleopatra's Perfume ("One whiff and every man was her slave.."). I'm
thrilled to be represented by Roberta Brown, Brown Literary Agency. Here's my
take on erotic romance:
Back in the days when Victoria was queen and women struggled to earn a
living in tiny shops and dingy workrooms, a British periodical published a story
called "The Woman Who Did." Did what? was the question upon every female
reader's lips. Sex was never discussed by "good girls" and one British physician
went so far as to proclaim that a married woman "submits to her husband, but
only to please him."
We've come a long way, Victoria. Sex in the City, bikini thongs and
mini-vibrators are part and parcel of what's accepted today, along with erotic
romance. I believe erotic romance liberates women. Not in the Girls Gone Wild
sense, but in the bedroom and in their relationships. Women want to know
everything from dildo etiquette to "does size matter?"
You can get this information from a sex manual and you should if you have
specific questions (I discuss these topics in my nonfiction book, The Japanese
Art of Sex), but it's a lot more fun to experience a sexual encounter with
your man in an up close and oh so personal way in an erotic romance. You get
what I call the "cuddly effect" along with the, um, climax.
Erotic romance is the new kid on the block. It's only been since 1966 when
John Cleland's Fanny Hill was declared in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that "it
could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value." Since
then, writers have had the freedom to express themselves, their dreams and
their fantasies; albeit we erotic romance writers do it with spice, but that's
what gives a dish that extra something that delights the palate and tempts the
soul.
Isn't erotic romance a fancy name for erotic fiction? No. Erotic romance is
a sensual often explicit story about the romantic relationship between the
characters with the emphasis on the romance. Erotic fiction can be any form
of erotica where sex and other factors are the driving forces in the story,
not the romance. I write erotic romance where the emphasis is on the romance
as well as the intrigue and sensual world inhabited by the characters (e.g.
the international world of espionage in my Spice novel, Spies, Lies & Naked
Thighs).
The bottom line is: Writing is hard work. Period. If it's done well,
whether it's a mystery, thriller or erotic romance, that tome deserves our
respect. And that's what we all want the morning after, isn't it? Respect. It
works for me.
My novel VAMPED is up for discussion today (the cover anyway!) at Book Nymph if anyone wants to swing by and check it out!
Here today we have literary agent Roberta Brown with the Brown Literary Agency and her author Jina Bicarr giving their take on erotic romance. Again, those who comment will be entered to win a little something special for their stockings this year - signed copies of Jina Bacarr's The Blonde Geisha and Spies, Lies, and Naked Thighs.
"I'll take erotic romance..."
An agent's and an author's POV
Hello Lucienne - thanks for inviting Jina Bacarr and me to blog!
I'm Roberta Brown with the Brown Literary Agency. I love hot books. I'm very
fond of erotica. I've read John Cleland's Fanny Hill and Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders. True classics, and when the novels were earliest released, they
were read by more men than women. In my opinion, good erotica isn't graphic,
lude, or positional. It's all based on seduction.
Author Arnold Haultain once said "A woman can say more in a sigh than a man
can say in a sermon." To me, an erotic novel is a blend of soft, deep,
throaty, passionate, and climactic sighs.
Erotica is also wonderfully sensual and smooth and makes the heart beat
faster. The stories are as visual and arousing as a soft whisper to the ear, an
unexpected kiss on the back of the neck, and the electric brush of hands. The
most timid reader can download an ebook, and someone more gregarious can act
out a chapter with a lover. Even if the novel doesn't have a happy ending,
you know the hero and heroine (or even a menage) are sexually satisfied!
I've always believed erotica authors have 'sexy' DNA. Erotica is a difficult
genre to write and write well. The 'hot erotic gene' is born in the writer's
blood. Even with the tightening economy, there remains a strong market for
erotica. Those who write it best will survive the cutbacks with publishers.
Hi, I'm Jina Bacarr, Spice author of The Blonde Geisha and coming in April
2009, Cleopatra's Perfume ("One whiff and every man was her slave.."). I'm
thrilled to be represented by Roberta Brown, Brown Literary Agency. Here's my
take on erotic romance:
Back in the days when Victoria was queen and women struggled to earn a
living in tiny shops and dingy workrooms, a British periodical published a story
called "The Woman Who Did." Did what? was the question upon every female
reader's lips. Sex was never discussed by "good girls" and one British physician
went so far as to proclaim that a married woman "submits to her husband, but
only to please him."
We've come a long way, Victoria. Sex in the City, bikini thongs and
mini-vibrators are part and parcel of what's accepted today, along with erotic
romance. I believe erotic romance liberates women. Not in the Girls Gone Wild
sense, but in the bedroom and in their relationships. Women want to know
everything from dildo etiquette to "does size matter?"
You can get this information from a sex manual and you should if you have
specific questions (I discuss these topics in my nonfiction book, The Japanese
Art of Sex), but it's a lot more fun to experience a sexual encounter with
your man in an up close and oh so personal way in an erotic romance. You get
what I call the "cuddly effect" along with the, um, climax.
Erotic romance is the new kid on the block. It's only been since 1966 when
John Cleland's Fanny Hill was declared in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that "it
could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value." Since
then, writers have had the freedom to express themselves, their dreams and
their fantasies; albeit we erotic romance writers do it with spice, but that's
what gives a dish that extra something that delights the palate and tempts the
soul.
Isn't erotic romance a fancy name for erotic fiction? No. Erotic romance is
a sensual often explicit story about the romantic relationship between the
characters with the emphasis on the romance. Erotic fiction can be any form
of erotica where sex and other factors are the driving forces in the story,
not the romance. I write erotic romance where the emphasis is on the romance
as well as the intrigue and sensual world inhabited by the characters (e.g.
the international world of espionage in my Spice novel, Spies, Lies & Naked
Thighs).
The bottom line is: Writing is hard work. Period. If it's done well,
whether it's a mystery, thriller or erotic romance, that tome deserves our
respect. And that's what we all want the morning after, isn't it? Respect. It
works for me.