I wasn't sure if any of the winners had any m/m aspects, cheering to hear that there were. However utterly depressing to see the full batch of awards of the RWA and - as far as I can see -not a m/m anywhere. I wonder if it is worth joining, and many many m/m writers feel the same, but if we don't join, how can we influence the association?
I'm always for the "mining from inside" strategy. If you see the first Passionate Plume Awards (in 2006) there were only a M/M title (A bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach). This year there are a lot of menages, not of my appeal, but there are a lot of stories where the M/M romance of the threesome is very important in the story (like Samantha Kane for example). And Mackenzie MacKade, Anna Leigh Keaton, Jody Strong, are all erotic romance writer that this year wrote also full M/M romance. I was very disappointed to hear that Ellora's Cave editors believe that M/M romance is a temporary boom and that the future is on the M/F/M or M/M/F... in my case, if they follow this strategy, they will lose a reader. Elisa
Yes, I heard that about Ellora's Cave and was completely disgusted about it. Gay fiction isn't a "phase" and it doesn't go out of fashion in the same way that inspriational fiction or vampire stories might do. I find menage to be a genre that many publishers think is a good way to dip their toes into the market without actually embracing it. It's insulting, really because bisexuality is not at all the same thing.
Actually I don't know if since I don't like it, or if it is a real thing, but usually the quality of the menages romance I read is not very good. I found trouble to like the middle element in the threesome.
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