My wife reads dozens (if not hundreds) of romance novels a year. I don't think she reads Harlequin anymore, though. She's more into smaller companies who publish stories about polyamory and shapeshifters and polyamorous shapeshifters. On a side note, Google Chrome's spellchecker wants me to replace polyamory with polyandry.
1/doceb: Sounds like they're following the market, not leading it.
That's my feeling too. Women (not all, of course) complain about men's interest in porn but the fact is that women love porn too, just a different kind of porn. Guys like to watch people fucking; women like "great dialogue and compelling romance."
And also, women are gobbling these like candy, so, apparently, they're not that offensive to women. Let 'em have their sex fantasies. Guys have theirs.
e-book readers are God's gift because nobody can see the cover of what you're reading. "Oh, you know, just some Dostoevsky in the original Russian" -- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254
Ebook erotica is a huge market and make no mistake: when they talk about "compelling romance" that really means "hot fucking."
At least, that's what readers expect. It's entirely possible that Cosmo/Harlequin are so out of touch that they fail to print the whips-and-tentacles-and-triple-penetration dirty stuff that's really taking off now and instead publish some dull one man, one woman, missionary while gazing lovingly into one another's eyes boring shit.
Many women are huge perverts and they will spend obscene amounts of money on ebook erotica. God bless them.
Don't romance novels consistently do really well on ebooks? Sounds like they're following the market, not leading it.
Sounds so very Helen Churlish Brown.
That's my feeling too. Women (not all, of course) complain about men's interest in porn but the fact is that women love porn too, just a different kind of porn. Guys like to watch people fucking; women like "great dialogue and compelling romance."
And also, women are gobbling these like candy, so, apparently, they're not that offensive to women. Let 'em have their sex fantasies. Guys have theirs.
At least, that's what readers expect. It's entirely possible that Cosmo/Harlequin are so out of touch that they fail to print the whips-and-tentacles-and-triple-penetration dirty stuff that's really taking off now and instead publish some dull one man, one woman, missionary while gazing lovingly into one another's eyes boring shit.
Many women are huge perverts and they will spend obscene amounts of money on ebook erotica. God bless them.