The next obvious direction to take my literary career after the dinosaur porn.

[taste_is_sweet]

While poking around the multitude of online publishers, I came across this website. Astrea Press specializes in books that don't have sex. As in none. Whatsoever. (They refer to it as showing 'pink parts', which is kind of cute.) Personally, I love this idea. After years of fanfiction and slash, the idea of not having to write about bumping uglies is pretty cool. Unfortunately, they don't take novels with too much violence in them either. Which disqualifies pretty much anything I've ever written, ever.

BUT! They're not the only publishing house out there that specializes in these kind of romances. Even Elora's Cave, known for its erotica, has a 'Sweet' line called Blush. And then of course there's 'Inspirational' romance. Harlequin is very well known for this genre, which has way less pink--not even tongues--and way more God.

"Come back to the church, Sarah. Or I'll eat you."

And that, O best-beloveds, is when I realized that I'd hit a completely untapped genre, combining two of the hottest trends in publishing right now: Dinosaur Erotica and Inspirational Romance.

Isn't that beautiful? I can see you getting misty-eyed with joy already.

(The photos I used are: Two Amish Girls by Sharee Basinger, Raptor by Yinan Chen, Pretty Church by Terrence Hatch, and Rural Field by Larisa Koshkina. They can be found Here, Here, Here, and Here. At Public Domain Pictures.net.)

Comments

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

You will love my YA novel when (hopefully, God; hopefully) it's published. ::Nods firmly:: And I promise there are no dinosaurs. Not even sexy ones.

Thank you for telling me about that book. It doesn't sound like something I would have chosen, personally. But then again I grew up so far out in the country that we had to drive to the nearest small town, so I've never had that experience. But I've always hated books set later than the Victorian era where the female protagonist's only goal is teh babeez.

(Though of course is the character is written well, and wanting to be a homemaker is presented as a personal choice as opposed to an inevitable result, I can buy it. Where I live at least half the women are or have been stay-at-home-moms, so books catering to them--providing it would--are less incongruous.)

But I really hate plots where we're told how awesome a character is and then never actually see that. And yeah, stalker does not equal the kind of guy you want to make your life with. How could anyone think so?

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

That's just it--it felt as though the author was tossing out the "all I want is marriage and babies" to justify the heroine's decision to marry someone else. It wasn't supported anywhere by the story itself. It was just a contrived plot device.

The male MC might have been awesome but when we meet him, he's telling his finance he needs the two of them to 'take a break' and yet he gets upset when she walks out leaving her ring on the desk. We are told they have weekly meetings to 'work things out' but we never see any of that. All we see is him turning into a mess because she left him. Gah. I can't even begin...

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that doesn't sound very appealing. It actually sounds like fanfic, in the sense of the writer relying on the audience to fill in all the blanks. Or maybe they're just relying on the audience having such love for the genre that they'd be willing to go for any premise, now matter how badly supported.