various linkages

Firstly, some fun.  Pop along to Jessewave’s Blog and join in the discussion about sex scenes and when it becomes too much and becomes gratuitous.

I really love people who say “I don’t know anything about xxx genre”, and then proceed to spout their views about it. /sarcasm.

Authors do not owe their readers anything. Discuss. They really don’t, you know? I could sit down and write about a disturbing older man who leers over underage boys(Death in Venice), or another who has sex with underage girls (Lolita). I could write paedophilia, murder and necrophilia in war-time Vienna.(Vienna Dolorosa)  And I would have no “duty” to the reader when I wrote any of that – or anything else.  It’s up to the publisher to decide to publish it, and then, as Chris says, up to the reader to decide to buy, or not.

Blackguards! has been started. And I’ve made myself cry already. Annoyingly the story has to start with emo, as it’s only a day or two after Fleury sets off and leaves Ambrose behind.  However, talking of behinds, I’m sure he’ll stop being an Emo-Maudlin-darkly furious Irishman and will turn things around at the first sign of a pretty pair of cheeks.  He’s not the kind of man to stay maudlin for long.

 

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Happy Birthday Chris Smith

This is almost too true to be funny.  Have a good one, dear!

I just got an email from a publisher with their latest releases and I note that they are now listing what the endings are in the stories. e.g. HFN/HEA – please publishers do not do this.  It’s bad enough that I know it’s going to end well because it’s a “romance” i really don’t need the sub-genre of ending spelled out to me too. GAH!!!

Plus the fact that they have other warnings on the stories “e.g. this story contains masturbation, bad language and gay sex”  is there ANY POINT ME READING IT?

I should add, also that these are all short stories of about 4000 words.  Head very much desk.

 

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