It is snowing. I am happy.

[erastes]

Firstly, thank you all for your kindness yesterday. Although I turned off comments, I was touched that many of you took the time to email or PM me, it was very sweet of you and makes me more and more grateful for my little virtual world.  I feel a lot better today, and am only concerned about Dad—he rang me early this morning then forgot why he rang me.  I assume he woke up and couldn’t find Aslan, but he seems to be taking it better than I expected.  Anyway – thank you. There is a local dog shelter in Hickling, so when we go out for lunch on Sunday I’ll swing by there, and we can go and look and see if they have anything small and friendly. (I’ll have to tie my own hands behind my back as I always come out of shelters wanting to take EVERYTHING home. Last time I went to one, with enolabloodygay, I had my heart set on a Bloodhound, a white boxer, four cats and six chickens. She restrained me, thank goodness!)

As for the snow – we are told that we might get as much as 15 centimetres today or tomorrow, whatever 15 cms is in real money.

Secondly - I found this interesting Blog today – where this woman blogs about boys love and m/m writing – and it led me to THIS article which I’d missed back in June about the whole phenomenon (written by the same person)

Putting the tired subject aside, what struck me as this comment from the Romantic Times as they attempt unsuccessfully to rebut something Alex Beecroft is quoted as saying:

Our policy to not include m/m romance in RT Book Reviews is a space issue. Our periodic surveys with our readers tell us that there is not enough interest in this type of book within our general audience to warrant the extra space it would require (since there are so many being published) to review m/m books.

I think my brain exploded with the illogic of that statement.   It’s like the old joke: “Why won’t you publish m/m?” said the author to Big Publisher, and Big Publisher says, “God, I’m so bored with this question, you are the millionth person to ask it. There’s no interest in it!!”  Surely the very fact that there are “so many being published” negates the statement that there is “not enough interest that that type of book.”  Idiocy.

Lee Rowan, quite rightly, goes on to point out that when Romantic Times ran a survey on their forum as to whether there was any interest in the genre, the vote was a resounding yes.  Of course, some of the hetero-readers tried to blame this on the fact that people were coming to the board just to vote.  D’oh!

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Comments

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about Aslan. *HUGS* That's the only part I hate about having pets. The danger when going to the shelter is all too familair. When I went there, I fimrly stated to NEVER take a red tomcat and guess what I ended up with...

15 centimeters of snow?! ENVY!!! Seems we'll get some more on Thursday but can't complain; we still have about 10 centimeters. Am still hoping for 50 centimeters though. Don't care if that means walking instead of cycling.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: Hope your dad is holding up all right. It feels weird, as I'm sure you know, but having another animal in the house does seem to help. The dog my fiancé had loved since he was maybe eight or nine years old had to be put to sleep (she was seventeen, so it wasn't exactly a surprise), and we left our new dog with his mother to keep her company for about a week or so afterward. It seemed to help a bit.

And I know exactly what you mean about going to animal shelters. Every time we walk into one -- which by necessity cannot be often -- we both leave wanting to take at least five different animals with us.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Come to NE Ohio, we get more than enough snow every winter. lol. Still so sorry about Aslan:( Maybe you could find an older Cavalier! Pippin is a little jumpy right now but he is only 6 months old but he loves to cuddle on laps, sleep at the foot of the bed and just wants to be near me no matter what I am doing, all 11 pounds of him:)

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

There's an alligator at our Humane Society, fully grown, fat and happy in the California sun. They say he's not for adoption, but I'm sure if you told him he was going out of the country, they'd make an exception =)

Hope you find something small and friendly for Dad. I've got the same problem you do, with wanting to take them all home. Perhaps this is why I write series....

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about Aslan. I'm seriously going to have to filter my friends list - I keep missing things. I'm glad to hear that today is much better though, and hope you can find a new friend for your Dad soon.

LOL! I remember that RT poll, and how you'd have thought people turning up to say "I'd buy your magazine if you only included m/m romance" would have been something most magazines would have jumped on.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

It was probably just as well that Cassie was the ONLY adoptable dog in the second shelter we visited... the puppies in the first were all either HUGE or Jack Russel mixes, and I'm not quite dog-mad enough to bring home a Jack. Had to be one small enough to pick up in an emergency and calm enough to catch.