another article on erotic romance
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/books/story/398156p-337264c.html
It does mention Ellora's Cave, an improvement over most articles on the growing genre.
But this line sets my teeth on edge: Chock-full of heaving bosoms, various throbbing body parts and raunchy sex scenes, the books fall into a category called romantica.
*sigh* No heaving bosoms in our books. And I don't call sex scenes I write raunchy. I do write explicit. I refuse to couch the scenes behind closed doors in purple prose.
And I don't like to read a sex scene and wonder, "Did they or didn't they?" And yes, I just read a book, I'm not sure they went all the way or not. I reread the passage a couple of times with no luck deciphering.
I've never forgotten in high school English reading a classic. We were talking about a particular group of pages. The teacher said, "They just had sex." *blinks* LOL talk about mystery. I never would have said that passage was "that." And I didn't like it then, I don't like it now.
One thing that has been pointed out on other lists is that romantica is a trademarked term. By Ellora's Cave. But the paper doesn't use it that way.
I love the growing attention to the genre of erotic romance. But darn it, I'd like to find a positive article. With no wink wink nudge and reflecting the correct way things have grown up.
May the muses have erotic romance
Lany
It does mention Ellora's Cave, an improvement over most articles on the growing genre.
But this line sets my teeth on edge: Chock-full of heaving bosoms, various throbbing body parts and raunchy sex scenes, the books fall into a category called romantica.
*sigh* No heaving bosoms in our books. And I don't call sex scenes I write raunchy. I do write explicit. I refuse to couch the scenes behind closed doors in purple prose.
And I don't like to read a sex scene and wonder, "Did they or didn't they?" And yes, I just read a book, I'm not sure they went all the way or not. I reread the passage a couple of times with no luck deciphering.
I've never forgotten in high school English reading a classic. We were talking about a particular group of pages. The teacher said, "They just had sex." *blinks* LOL talk about mystery. I never would have said that passage was "that." And I didn't like it then, I don't like it now.
One thing that has been pointed out on other lists is that romantica is a trademarked term. By Ellora's Cave. But the paper doesn't use it that way.
I love the growing attention to the genre of erotic romance. But darn it, I'd like to find a positive article. With no wink wink nudge and reflecting the correct way things have grown up.
May the muses have erotic romance
Lany
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