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  • Dec. 6th, 2007 at 3:23 PM
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I'm impressed.  In two of the romance/supernatural/erotica novels I've read in the past few days the writer mentioned Emma Holly.  I've read a little bit of her work, but obviously now I must read more!  I'm still debating how much sex to include in my story; on the one hand there's stuff like Jim Butcher's which is more plot/character driven (yay plot!) and  then there's stuff like well, dozens of authors where there's tons of sex scenes (which, lets face it, help sell books).

I guess it comes down to whether or not I want to, and whether or not it detracts from the story.  Or maybe I'll do without in the rough draft, and add sex scenes in later, if I think it needs more oomph.

I generally have a harder time writing romantic scenes than sexual ones.  Probably because since my seperation I haven't been in a relationship, so I'm still sensitive that way; sex can be just flesh, but love... that's painful.  I'm not sure there's a relationship equivalent to masturbation.

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[info]mmegaera wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 04:17 am (UTC)
May I ask who the authors who mentioned Emma Holly were?

Because I really like her stuff, and I'd love to find other authors who are as good at putting emotion and heart into erotic romance as she is.
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[info]perchta wrote:
Dec. 13th, 2007 11:53 pm (UTC)
gah, hard to remember... 'Dead and Loving It' by MaryJanice Davidson I'm sure of.

However, I just can't recall the second any more. Possibly 'A Hunger Like No Other' by Kresley Cole.

Or.... 'Silver Bough' by Lisa Tuttle, 'Night Lost' by Lynn Viehl, or something else I've read in the last few weeks. sigh.

Edited at 2007-12-13 11:54 pm (UTC)
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[info]mmegaera wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2007 01:22 am (UTC)
Thanks!

I don't do vamps, but I'll check the other titles.
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[info]perchta wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2007 09:27 pm (UTC)
well, the Davidson one is werewolf short stories, but most of the others are vamps, lol. I like supernatural stories in general, I'm afraid.
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[info]mmegaera wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2007 10:19 pm (UTC)
I like supernatural stories, too, but I'm rather picky about them. No vamps at all, shapeshifters only if handled in a specific way, not overly fond of psychics.

I do like ghosts as secondary characters and/or part of the ambiance (but not as the hero or heroine), time travel, and other -- I guess you'd call it world-building supernaturality [g].

But I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of vampire stories I've been able to stomach (I can't figure out what people find sexy about drinking blood), and only one that I really like (the novella Luisa's Desire by Emma Holly, which started out in an anthology with other authors, but which has since been collected in one of her omnibusses). But that's in spite of the vampirism, not because of it. I love the setting, and the H/H.
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[info]perchta wrote:
Jan. 1st, 2008 07:08 am (UTC)
You know, I've been thinking on this a lot lately, why vamps are so popular, and I think it's for two reasons.

the first is that they tend to fit the 'tall, dark, and handsome' stranger romance writers like. They go light on the blood drinking bit, because honestly, it's not that sexy. Werewolves are harder because it smacks of bestiality, and that's pretty hardcore for the average reader (though LKH seems to be taking it there... anyway). Plus they also fit the bill for 'brooding poet-warrior' type that's so popular in romances.

the second is that they are so decidedly unreal, so very fantastical, that it's easier for readers to 'buy'. A story based on real men, well, there's always the reminder that you'll probably never actually meet anyone that fabulous, and that's damn disappointing. With a vamp, or an atlantean warrior, or a sidhe lord, well, you know they aren't real, so you don't get as sad about the real men in one's life.

and yeah, I'm spending new year's at home with my mom; could you tell???
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[info]mmegaera wrote:
Jan. 1st, 2008 07:46 am (UTC)
I'm home alone. Well, with the cats. And quite pleased to be so, actually.

As for vampires, I will never get past the bloodsucking part, alas.

Happy New Year!
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