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Congratulations Lee!
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lee_rowan wins the the EPPIE award for "Best GBLT" e-book in the EPIC (Electronically Publishing Internet Connection) awards with her lovely homoerotic historical (nautical) book "Ransom"Well done, Lee. I'm very pleased about this, because of course historical homosexual writing is close to my heart.
However, and this is aimed purely at the EPIC organisers and has been a gripe of mine more and more recently, why on earth isn't there a gay romance category? Or failing that for a lack of entries to be able to set up seperate categories why isn't this in the romance category? And actually - why should there be seperate categories? Aren't we in the 21st century? Isn't there gay marriage? Why the segregation? If we insist on segregation then lets have all the other romance labelled "heterosexual" please.
There's
Erotic Romance
Contemporary Romance
Erotica
Erotic Romance Historic Fiction
Erotic Romance Paranormal
Erotic Romance Sci-Fi
Fantasy Paranomal Romance
Historical Romance
Romantic Suspense
Sci-Fi Futuristic Romance.....
and
GLBT
The nominees for this category were:
Ransom by Lee Rowan—Publisher Linden Bay Romance
A Year and a Day by Willa Okati—Publisher Samhain (Paranormal gay romance)
Details of the Hunt by Laura Baumbach—Publisher Loose-ID (erotica gay sci-fi)
The Broken Road by Sean Michael—Publisher Torquere Press (contemporary gay romance)
Because what? GBLT can't be involved in anything that vaguely involves romance? Or as it's you know. QUEER, then it can only be porn, and not erotica? Why are all GBLT books, no matter what their genre, all lumped together in some quarantine pen??
Really. Please. I'd REALLY like to know. This isn't the first time that I've seen this marginalisation and it's starting to get right up my nose.
Also - where are the lesbian ebooks?
