ALL MALE REVIEW

[erastes]

Shortly before Amazon Fail, a journalist from a Connecticut newspaper got in touch with Running Press and said that they’d like to interview Alex Beecroft or myself about the books which they’d just received. Alex was out that day, so I picked it up and I asked her to call me, which she did – but that was the day that Amazonfail exploded, so the interview about M/M in general took a different turn.

It's a great interview/article - she interviewd several people including Gehayi, and Parhelion and others - it's a shame she gets Alex's book title wrong a couple of times though!

Excellent!

If you live in the CT area, look out for it in 3 newspapers there, but you can read it on line too

Comments

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

As you know, I'm on sock duty...so I'll read when I return. I have the feeling this is going to suck big time?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh! No!

It's lovely!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

I thought you meant it took a turn for the worse. Damn sock duty!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you - despite the Amazon-themed 'derailment' the interview is most interesting. I'm so happy to hear about the success of gay historical romance - I am, in fact, afraid to even believe it. As if, if I believe it, it might go away. I want it too much.

Interesting that Catherine Salmons says that K/S is still the most popular genre of slash. I am skeptical. I would have thought the other big, more current fandoms were far more popular - Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, for instance, or Stargate and Supernatural. Am I just hanging out in the wrong slash circles, and don't hear what's going on otherwise?

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

If that's true, I am so far out of the link, lol.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have said so either, but perhaps there's more out there than we know - I'd certainly have put Potter on top of the list.

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

BLOODY BRILLIANT!!
I am so proud of you - and dead chuffed that you and Alex and others are getting this sort of publicity, which will boost your profile and your sales and can do no harm to the genre.

Thank you - for being such an articulate and intelligent spokesperson for the genre. It's much appreciated. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well... me too. But you know what? Catherine Salmons does indeed know what she's talking about, but she might have said or written that a long time ago.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I suspect the information is just somewhat out of date - probably true when Catherine Salmons said or wrote it, but that may have been years ago.

I know the Kirk/Spock fandom is still out there and will probably grow again when the new Star Trek movie comes out. But I think it's been in eclipse for a while, while other fandoms (like, notoriously, Harry Potter) hold the stage.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hah! articulate. You should have seen me waving my arms around. the Journo seems to have picked up on that with all the exclamation marks...

Thanks hun

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Excellent interview and article. It's just a pity about the False/True Colors thing.

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

Hey, arm-waving is a serious form of communication in some cultures. I have it on good authority. *nodnod* :)

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

Just chiming in to say that I was at my local Barnes
and Noble today (in a smallish city in Central New
York) and they had both books on the shelf, five copies
each. They have an excellent LGBT section in this store
and I get everything there because they are so quick
to stock new titles.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That's good to know - even though they are reshelving. I know that they want to bring more women to the genre, and hoped that having them in the normal romance section was going to do that, but we can only hope that at least, more gay men find it! That would be just as good!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was too late to correct it by the time I found the article - I should have asked her to send me the copy before she sent it to the press, but at least she gets it right at the beginning.

[blake-fraina.livejournal.com]

Hey hey, I live in Fairfield County and the Weekly is the local freebie newspaper. I like to grab it for all the local music and restaurant listings. Stuff like that.

Doesn't hurt that they also have a strong leftist bent.

I'll pick up a copy when I hit the gym tonight. How completely cool.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's rather scary to be in the newspapers, but very cool too.