EREC – the blog to be reading if you are you are interested in erotic romance e-publishing – posted about the New Non-Erotic Romance Epublisher Desert Breeze and I couldn’t help but be amused.
While the topic of this post isn’t quite technically true – Desert Breeze is setting out to be a non-erotic romance publisher and is managing to insult erotic romance authors – you can’t quite help but laugh.
The quote (also quoted on EREC) from Desert Breeze that gets me (as an amateur erotic romance writer) feeling all warm and fuzzy inside is:
“We want to bring back classic romance storytelling without excessive sex to bog down and hide the true element of the story — Love.”
Because sex and love don’t really ever go together.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, I know what they are trying to say – at least, what I hope they are trying to say. Even so, haven’t they read any good erotic romance? Have they only been reading ‘paperback porn’ which has only one mission: get people nekkid and having sex?
Apparently they have if they feel there has been a “saturation of the market with sex-based storytelling and the decline in quality of the actual novels.”
Ouch.
Given that they’re all playing in the romance genre sandbox, you’d think they could put forth their non-erotic romance stance without spitting on the sand castles of the erotic romance members of their social group.
It will be interesting to see if that description will still stay up over the next few months and how other publishers and authors respond.
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