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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	julesnoctambule 2007-05-03 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	How could you possibly suppress the giggles with something this classic? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	magnolia_mama 2007-05-04 02:17 am UTC (link)
	I suspect I'm not muffling my snickers well enough. I first read that as, "I suspect I'm not muffing my knickers well enough," and... erm, clearly I needed a vacation more than I thought. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2007-05-04 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Oh, no, trust me. I read it exactly that way, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	monsley 2007-05-04 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	Let us go on vacation together then. My thoughts were "furry... knickers? Owowowowowowowowww (Reply to this)(Parent)

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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	singe 2007-05-03 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	Connor began to pant at the growing sensation, like he was coaching a first time mother through childbirth. Wow, nothing's hotter than a Lamaze reference in the middle of a sex scene. fans self (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-05-03 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	That was definitely my favorite part. 'Cause nothin' says sexy like childbirth, oh yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brown_betty 2007-05-04 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	sobs (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-05-04 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	he became aware of a growing pressure just past the rim of stretched muscle inside his ass... ...the muscle was too tight. He needed relief. He needed relief NOW. He needed...needed...AN EPISIOTOMY! Oooooooh, YES! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-05-04 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	I hope he had an epidural. Epidurals are so hot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-05-05 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Guh! I'll be in my bunk... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	julesnoctambule 2007-05-03 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah! God, God, God! Jesus!" Yep. That where I went from muffled snickering to all-out cackling. The childbirth comparison didn't help, either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	julesnoctambule 2007-05-04 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	Hehe. Makes you wonder how they'd go about deciding it! 'Well, Carl -- how much do you love your job?' (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fairy_tale_echo 2007-05-05 04:58 am UTC (link)
	Wow, this needs to be an icon. STANDARD ANAL INTERCOURSE: AREN'T YOU SORRY YOU'VE BEEN MISSING OUT ON IT ALL THESE YEARS???! Nay, this needs to be the motto for the Internet in general! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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