kisses and good news for gay romance

[erastes]

KISSES! We all love having them, love watching them (as long as the actors or the Foleys aren’t slurping) love reading about them.

Come and celebrate KISSES with me this week on my column at Jessewave’s blog. Share your favourite kisses, share your kisses excerpts.

http://reviewsbyjessewave.blogspot.com/2009/06/you-need-kissing-badly-and-by-someone.html

Although I knew this last week, Ravenous Romance announced two days ago that they’ve sold two books to Alyson Books who are going to publish gay romance.

It’s about time, really. I’ve always known that gay men would like reading romance, and why not? I’m not comparing gay men to women, but everyone wants a bit of romance in their life, and it’s only stigma and “men don’t do [this] or [that] which means that men are the sex less likely to buy books.

I don’t know if Don Weise quite knows what he’s letting himself in for, because if he opens his doors to romance, he’ll suddenly realise just how much there is out there. It shocks me a little to hear that he hasn’t been reading it up to now, I’d be keeping my eye on what was going out in gay fiction land in his position!

But still – it’s good news – great news for the gay romance genre.  I can’t help but feel a BIT smug because I did predict this, that others would fall once the Running Press line started up!

Hurrah!

Comments

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

That is excellent news - the more publishers that jump on this particular bandwagon, the better! Then we can all get rich and famous. :D

I had planned to submit But Not For Me to Running Press but I couldn't find their submissions info online...as I was saying to vashtan, a list of links to publishers who are amenable to m/m romance is something we can all contribute to and build on - pass on the m/m goodness, as it were. :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

There already is hun - several in fact - the EAA has one here

:

http://community.livejournal.com/erotic_authors/21524.html

you need to join the LJ comm to see it though, of course and it needs sorting out - WHEN i get the time!!!

[penelopefriday.livejournal.com]

Yay romance. Yay romance for EVERYONE!

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Wait a sec, there have been gay romances long before women were writing them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, Steve, I think you know that I know that!!

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

But the way your post was written, it implied that Alyson was just now doing gay romances.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware they were doing it - if they are, then I apologise. I know they have done in the past, but was referring more to genre romance rather than gay love stories. I was under the impression that they are going to start a genre romance line, which I wasn't aware they had done before, so that's what I was referring to. As I say, if they had done so, I didn't know.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

B-Boy Blues, James Earl Hardy
Broadway Nights, Seth Rudetsky
Latter Days come to mind immediately...

And, of course, the Best Gay Love Stories series!

What is the difference between genre romance released from a gay press and gay love stories?

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Possibly the condescending sneer that so many "serious" writers affect when they talk about 'genre romance.'

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

No... seriously, what is this difference?

[diannefox.livejournal.com]

All genre romance are love stories, but not all love stories are genre romance. Genre romance is a subset of love stories which follow specific rules and structures.

The Fisher King is a love story, but You've Got Mail is genre romance.