Article about m/m in the Globe and Mail

[erastes]

This article was going to go out in December, but then they decided to run it near Valentine's Day, which is quite sweet.  There are a few inaccuracies in it, I have to say: I'm NOT 47, although I wish I was, I'm a few years older—and I haven't been married to a man for 15 years. God knows where they got that from. For the record, not that it's really anyone's business, I was married for a year in 1988, and that was only because I had to wait a year before I could start divorce proceedings—he'd been unfaithful around six months so I chucked him out!

Anyway—it's not a bad article, despite the usual slanted nonsense and inaccuracies. The comments are rather amusing though. They range from WHAT WOULD JESUS THINK? to YUK to HURRAH!.

Alex Beecroft and Heidi Cullinan and I are quoted.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/valentines-day/what-women-want-gay-male-romance-novels/article1902774/

Comments

[jl_merrow]

I found the article very encouraging - anything that brings m/m to a wider audience has to be good. I remember my early days of wanting to read m/m romance, but having no idea I could find it outside of fandom.

I must say it's been educational, though, watching all the inaccuracies that creep in to articles like this - or occasionally are pushed! ;)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree with you--when I look how far we've come in less than ten years it's really lovely--i think that's what many publishers don't see, how much the genre has ballooned from "not being able to buy it" to "omg - too many to read!!"

:)