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Feb. 1st, 2007 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesYeah 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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Date: 2007-02-01 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-01 04:15 pm (UTC)Codpiece rippers
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Date: 2007-02-01 05:01 pm (UTC)*g*
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Date: 2007-02-01 08:19 pm (UTC)Codpiece Grippers!?
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Date: 2007-02-01 08:23 pm (UTC):)
She should have a website though, but then, i guess she's doing well enough not tohave to worry
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Date: 2007-02-01 08:24 pm (UTC)Placket.
How about placket stiffeners?
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Date: 2007-02-01 08:31 pm (UTC)And yes. I totally agree. I'm not ashamed of wanting to make money, if I can, and I enjoy what I do.
When I write that "enfant terrible" book that everyone will know about but no-one will buy and no-one will understand, I shall publish under my own name. *G*
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:45 pm (UTC)pseudonyms
Date: 2007-02-01 11:22 pm (UTC)X-D Too, too true.
I wonder if one day I'll delve into "speculative writing" and publish under Lilian Cho? :-P
I'll use my rl initials when I write children's books, and my full name for articles. Hah!
Bodice rippers...umm...trouser rippers? Trouser trippers? X-D
Horny male: *opens button*
Button: *is opened*
Horny male: *zips trousers open*
Trousers: *is pooled around ankles*
Horny male: *trips*
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Date: 2007-02-02 04:35 am (UTC)I'll let you know how you do with a member of J.L.'s target audience. O.o