Two Writerly Things that have annoyed me this morning

[erastes]

1. Facebook have changed their rules regarding promotions. http://www.ashleymarch.com/blog/?p=1439

NOT for the better.  Here's one of the rules

You must not notify winners through Facebook, such as through Facebook messages, chat, or posts on profiles or Pages.

So just HOW do you let them know then? There's no way I want hundreds of people to email me their email addy, nor would I expect anyone to do it, apart from the winner.

God, I've just about had it with Facebook.

2. From Breathless Books:

http://www.breathlesspress.com/erotic/submissions/

• 1. Monogamous couples. Infrequent loves scenes with no graphic language.
• 2. Explicit love scenes with graphic or strong language.
• 3. Frequent and explicit loves scenes/graphic depictions of sexual situations. May include BDSM, D/s, homoerotic sex acts.
• Diablo Delight: No holds barred high frequency of sexual interactions with strong erotic content. Extreme BDSM, group sex. No HEA required.
• Sweet Confection: Unconsummated sensual scenes, or love scenes that contain no description of actions

I KNOW the publisher is inclusive of gender, and I am pretty sure they don't mean to offend, but this casual thoughtlessness does need sometimes to be pointed out. First they say they accept m/m stories, and then gay romantic encounters—because "homoerotic acts" can span from a man looking sexy to the beholder to fisting and much further beyond—are automatically lumped in with the highest end of erotica.

Not good, Breathless Books. not good.

Comments

Re: Absolutely

[erastes.livejournal.com]

nod nod--I've seen that too, and my books are shelved in erotica and labelled erotica by the publishers (not all, but some) even though they are getting less so all the time. I'm sure there are many Mills and Boons that have more graphic sex and are sold on supermarket shelves as romance.