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goblin ([info]goblin) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-03 08:47:00
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Romance Novelists Fight for Justice!
At the latest Romantic Times convention, author Lauren Baumbach's posters and fliers that promoted her stories were removed by the staff of the Hyatt. When she asked why, she was told they made people uncomfortable. The RT staff did not back her up, although several authors did. Why was her promo material removed when other, far more explicit posters were left up? Her's were for m/m romance.

She blogs about it here (the blog is lurid pink and orange and has a nekkid man chest at the top--not entirely SFW). Most of the comments are supportive, but about halfway down the page Carol Stacey, "Publisher of Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine," responds. She says that m/m romance isn't reviewed by Romantic Times because it wouldn't reach the "target audience." Posters call her on this--RT held a poll and in fact, the majority of respondants would like m/m romance reviewed in Romantic Times.

This wank is complete with "some of my best friends are gay", "Everyone I interacted with from RT was polite and smiling, but so were those girls in school who stabbed you in the back," f/f romance is hot but m/m romance is disgusting (male poster), and a yaoi writer who understands Lauren B's predicament because she has a "writer soul."

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-05-03 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I want to be sympathetic, but the blog design and "Sensually Wicked Man Love" is making me laugh at her instead.

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[info]firebad
2007-05-03 04:37 pm UTC (link)
Same. It sucks what happened to her, but she keeps referring to her "material" as "tasteful." I'm looking at that colour scheme and thinking HELL U SAY.

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[info]lostmahmarbles
2007-05-03 06:46 pm UTC (link)
I own one of her books and at least this book is pretty tasteful. Its a romance novel, and that's exactly how it reads, and it doesn't come off as outright porn.

Plus the men are MEN. Well, one is a werewolf... but that's beside the point.

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[info]hallidae
2007-05-03 06:52 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, you have my interest. Does Amazon carry the book?

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[info]bitca
2007-05-03 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Looks like it must be this one: http://www.laurabaumbach.com/outthereinthenight.php

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[info]lostmahmarbles
2007-05-03 08:40 pm UTC (link)
It is indeed that one.

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[info]cycnus
2007-05-04 06:10 am UTC (link)
Sweet fucking sassafrass, that's the lady who wrote Details of the Hunt! *dies*

I was just reading excerpts from that a few days ago and it had me howling. Highlights include a pirate who calls people "guv" every other line and an alien with a fifteen-inch tentacock:

"His cock swayed and squirmed, undulating in an exotic, questing dance performing for some unheard flute of an invisible snake charmer, looking for satisfaction and attention" ... "It immediately responded, curling around his fingers and looping once around his wrist, then shimmied free."

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(no subject) - [info]angstymcgoth, 2007-05-04 01:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cycnus, 2007-05-04 06:03 pm UTC
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[info]threegoldfish
2007-05-03 06:53 pm UTC (link)
ooooh, that sounds interesting. Title?

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[info]sorchar
2007-05-03 07:28 pm UTC (link)

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-05-03 07:44 pm UTC (link)
. . .damn. I might actually have to read that.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-05-03 07:47 pm UTC (link)
{*reads sample on website*}
{*chokes on her Ben & Jerry's*}

For real? Oh. . .it's every purple-prose PWP fic ever! There's thrusting! And loins! And magically hot semen!
I'm not sure if it's awful or brilliant.

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[info]threegoldfish
2007-05-03 08:11 pm UTC (link)
O.M.G. I... oh dear. I really shouldn't be reading that at work. I suspect I'm not muffling my snickers well enough.

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(no subject) - [info]julesnoctambule, 2007-05-03 11:43 pm UTC
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[info]puipui
2007-05-03 08:30 pm UTC (link)
OMG! "Stout flesh"! "Hidden recesses"! "Stuffed channel"! And even the old exploding orgasm standby, blowing up in the middle like Old Faithful. Hee!

Sensation began to creep back into Connors body and he became aware of a growing pressure just past the rim of stretched muscle inside his ass. The intense pressure reawakened the barely recovered nerves. Connor began to pant at the growing sensation, like he was coaching a first time mother through childbirth.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG this is just so beautifully cheesy. I love it! In fact, I think only a quote from our intrepid hero (not Stereotypically Magical Native American Werewolf Guy, the other guy) can truly express my reaction, here.

"Ah! God, God, God! Jesus!"

Indeed, my newly-gay werewolf friend. Indeed. HEE!

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-05-03 10:32 pm UTC
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[info]glossing2
2007-05-04 12:40 am UTC (link)
If this was standard anal intercourse, he was sorry he had missed out on it all these years...
I LOVE* THIS! Buttsex standards - can you imagine the arguments at ISO headquarters?

* and by "love", I mean cannot believe my eyes at the kind of writing I haven't seen off adultfanfiction.net.

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(no subject) - [info]julesnoctambule, 2007-05-04 07:02 pm UTC
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[info]issendai
2007-05-04 01:24 am UTC (link)
Ahh, F_W just warms my heart.

Old Guard Romance Writers: "Women don't want to read about men with men! Ew! Icky!"

Random Offsite Commenter: "Even tasteful romances about gay werewolves?"

The Hive Vagina: "AMAZON PAGE PLZ KTHX will be in bunk now bai."

Yes, Virginia, girls do want to read about boys who like boys. How hard is that to understand?

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[info]janegraddell
2007-05-04 02:27 am UTC (link)
Yeah. The ickiest thing about this wank is the amount of money I've spent at Amazon because of it.

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[info]issendai
2007-05-05 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Oooh. Then I will pimp again: Tailspin, a f/M romance with a substantial m/m subplot and damn good writing. And not an undulating cock in sight.

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[info]sidewinder
2007-05-04 02:47 am UTC (link)
Shit, even "Passions" today had one of the female characters all "Luis kissing a man?! OH CAN I SEE YES PLEASE THAT'S HOT!"

(Even if it was just Esme. But I like Esme. And while I'm at it, can we have some more hot Chad/Vincent sexing?)

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-05-04 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Wait, who the hell is Esme, besides a really stupid name? Teach me to stop watching. They finally get a character worth anything. Besides a shoe in the direction of the television.

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[info]sparkysrevenge
2007-05-04 07:01 am UTC (link)
I read that as, "Yes, Vagina."

... I'm thinkin' it's time to go to bed.

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[info]issendai
2007-05-04 05:14 pm UTC (link)
I had to proofread the sentence twice so I wouldn't write that.

There is no sleeping off guttermind. Sorry.

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[info]pet
2007-05-04 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Your comment made me actually laugh out loud. BECAUSE IT IS SO VERY TRUE!

HEEEEEE.

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[info]sorchar
2007-05-04 05:31 am UTC (link)
I'm conflicted, though, because she spells come "cum" and that's one of my peeves. Is it worth getting past that and paying the seven bucks for the ebook?

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[info]lostmahmarbles
2007-05-04 06:13 am UTC (link)
I thought so, but these are the kinds of stories I'd look past "hungry boypussy" for. Its a decent storyline, good enough characters - a few issues here and there, but I still liked it and didn't feel like I wasted the money I spent on it.

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[info]sorchar
2007-05-04 06:18 am UTC (link)
Whoot! *goes to download*

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(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2007-05-04 06:21 am UTC

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