Well, damn it. I've wasted my life.

[taste_is_sweet]

I'm sure you've all heard of it by now: Dinosaur Erotica.

It's a rising market, apparently. I haven't bought any of the novels myself, though of course with all the hype surrounding them, the co-authors of such gems as Mating with the Raptor are likely millionaires. (According to the interview link above, they were already making more money than their engineer friends.)

I think my favorite part is that beautiful cover, though I wonder how the heroine found that outfit in pseudo-bronze age Europe.

So, I read that short interview and some of the other articles about these writers, and I got to thinking that they were on to something.

I checked out a whole half-page of the Mating with the Raptor novel on Amazon and, well, let me say I've read a lot worse. There's even the beginning of a plot, of sorts. The writing feels kind of phoned-in, but I'm sure that after 200 or so short fics about women in dub-con relationships with mythological and extinct animals, I'd be phoning it in too. I certainly have to admire their work ethic.

And my conclusion, of course, is that I should be doing that. Fuck my attempts at being a novelist! Fuck plot and original, sympathetic characters--just get to the fucking. With dinosaurs.

sgamadison had the great idea of purposely writing the worst story idea she could think of, and then seeing how well it sold. I think that's awesome! Who's with me? Let's hear those terrible plot ideas (don't forget the sex)! God knows after being a dinosaur's love slave there's not much lower you can go. Except maybe underwater.

Impregnated by the Ichthyosaur, anyone?

Comments

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Great icon.

Thank you for the link. I'm happy I can find out what the book is like without having to actually buy it. :)

You wrote man/car fics? Transformers or Top Gear? Or neither?

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm a co-mod of The Professionals fandom Big Bang which is where that icon comes from. When I was struggling with my own Pros BB story my lovely mate Tog told me it needed more dinosaur and so an icon was born. *g*

Neither. Life on Mars. Gene/(Cor)Tina, Sam/(Cor)Tina, Annie/(Cor)Tina, Mobile phone/(Cor)Tina... well, the list goes on a bit. Cracky crack and quite fluffy, I'm told. *g*

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Learn something new every day. ;) I love the idea of fluffy person/car fic.

Apropos of in-joke icons, I have one too! The kitten thing comes from a comment my sister made when she was reading either one of my fics or my first novel. Apparently what I'd written was distressing, along the line of murdering helpless kittens. So I made the icon. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It pairs up with this one. Pros has an inexplicable amount of elf fic. *g*

I have a long (bad) history of basically writing things on a dare. The Cortina had babies models which is where they fluffy came in.

Ah, that's interesting, because when I see that icon it makes me think of The Goodies and Kitten Kong...



Hey, it's an English thing. :D

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm Canadian! I freaking loved the Goodies back in the day! Did they predate Monty Python? Or just on the CBC?

Kitten Kong! Awesome. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

My American mates have never seen The Goodies (until I force them to *g*) but they know Monty Python and it didn't occur to me that they'd have made the jump to Canada.

Monty Python pre-dates the Goodies by a couple of years I think but the Pythonites and the Goodies hung out together when they were all undergrads at Cambridge and in the Footlights together.

Some lovely nutters have been putting large chunks of the Goodies up on youtube, in some cases whole episodes.

A Goodies sketch that can make me laugh just be thinking about it is Gender Education:



That whole episode, Sex and Violence, was a really interesting response to Mary Whitehouse using them as an example of wholesome TV. *g*

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me about them. :D Boy that 70s British comedy was awesome.