Author of Contemporary Gay Romance
Here’s the flip side of Authors Honest Reactions to Bad Book Reviews post. This one is for the readers, because, let’s face it, authors are human and they make mistakes too. And yes, sometimes a book needs a fecking DNF review. It’s all in fun, so enjoy.
Authors, listen up. (Culled from thousands of reviews around the web.)
But the sex be like. WTF?!
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Political correctness and good PR suggest that writers take criticism in a number of ways, none of which allow them to vent their often honest feelings about bad reviews. So, in good fun…this one is for writer’s everywhere. (And yes, we have one coming for readers.)
Disclaimer: Before I get another author behaving badly badge, these were taken from 1000’s of reviews I’ve gone through in 20-odd genres. So if you think I’m picking on you, well, maybe I am. Or, you can just have a laugh at the ridiculousness that has become the back and forth in reviewing books in this day and age. It is all meant in fun.
Want to know what readers think? >> Honest Reader Reactions to Bad Books
S/he just goes on and on about how bad your book was when ten or twenty sentences will do just fine. We get it. You hated it.
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Erica Kay-Webster and David Bermudez, veterans of the Stonewall rebellion in NYC, kick off a Global Compassion Relay from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and pass it on to AIDS/LifeCycle riders in San Francisco, to Los Angeles, Tanzania, Botswana and around the world to reach the opening of the 2014 Compassion Games on September 11, 2014.
To learn more about the activities planned in your city visit CompassionGames.org
A lot of my posts are on the serious side, so I thought we’d have some fun and asked fellow authors what kind of reactions they got when someone they knew found out they wrote gay romance. These answers come from both male and female authors alike. Feel free to add the nuances of your own ‘outing’ in the comments. We can always use more lols.
Not necessarily no, some of it is highly erotic; some of it is based more on love and passion.
[An awkward pause.] Have you had the kind of sex you write about?
[To mom/other relatives/kids]: No, I’m a paragon of Southern gentlemanly virtue.
[To a really hot man-hunk]: You want a test run? That can be arranged. Let me call my agent.
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Some days are not for editing
So I came across Shebooks and thought what a great idea it was. I’m sure there are other subscription sites like it out there, which curate books for a particular audience and are successful with it. But this site particularly caught my eye because it deals mainly with shorts and flash fiction (which I’ve just started writing).
There’s no doubt that readers enjoy long books and series, but many times you just don’t have the time. You need a quick book fix, like right now. After poking around some, what really struck me was the quality of the reads available. This isn’t mediocre fan fiction you’ll find on a lot of other sites, these are solid authors who know their craft. I was impressed. The only drawback I saw was that the books are only available via tablet or smartphone, but as they grow, maybe that will change. Check them out, let me know what you think. (I’d like to see something like this for lgbt fiction.)
For those of my female author friends who write MM, I didn’t see any on site, so this may be an opportunity for you to branch out. Especially as the genre grows. Check their FAQ for details.
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