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[erastes]

Yeah yeah, no-one's listening to me with the HP news, but...

A couple of people have asked me, in response to my last post, whether I minded being called a Bodice Ripper writer, or being compared to Johanna Lindsey. I can't reply to comments at work, and I don't know what time I'm likely to address their query so I'm answering here.

I have to admit, that I'd never heard of Ms Lindsey, before getting that review, but that's not surprising, I don't read a lot of het romance. It's not a section I wander into in the library. Unless in dreams. Bad dreams! *shudder*

However, no, I don't mind at all! When I first started writing homoerotica historicals, I said to people (in my over-confident way!!!) that I wanted to be the Catherine Cookson/Barbara Cartland of Gay Historical Romance and that I would write "breeches rippers" (although that does, I'm told, sound like someone has farted). If anyone can come up with a better new cliche than breeches ripper the small but thriving genre will thank you.

I would be more than happy to be as prolific and successful as Ms Lindsey. I'd have to up my writing rate by quite a lot though! Two and a bit novels in four years is not probably cutting it.

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Good. Do you know? Mrs Lindsey is not so bad... I think is almost 10/15 years I haven't read one of her book, but I rememdered she was very funny. A lot of sex. And in this world where internet is everywhere, she still doesn't have an official site. I image an old nanny who writes sexy stories in an old type machine...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

And I forgot one thing: in her romance, Defy not the heart, my favourite, the heroine has a gay valet as lady's maid. He is the first who saw the hero (very tall, blonde and beautiful) and he falls in love for him, but the hero is a little dull, and when finally he marry the heroine, he is not worried about the fact that his wife has a man as maid, but of the fact that this man is interested in him! I think this is the first romance I have read with a gay characters.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i feel sorry for the poor maid!!!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh no, he consoles himself with the guardians' chief.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

she's the same age as my sister, born in 1952 so not that ancient!

:)

She should have a website though, but then, i guess she's doing well enough not tohave to worry