here, have some fail

[rm]

Apparently women and queers are ruining SF.

Torchwood gets a not insignificant amount of text, and, sadly, Dirk Benedict is referenced. If you're thinking this can't end well, you'd be right.

Maybe I'll actually pick it apart for your viewing pleasure later. But maybe I'll actually have something more useful to do instead, like ruining the genre with my homosexual girl-bits or the cock in my dresser drawer or something.

Tell me, SF-ruiners, what's on your agenda today?

Comments

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Your friend is so wrong I need a new word for what they are because GLBT romance is a hot item.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well, they said that gay fiction was really popular, as women liked reading about two men together. And that threesomes with two men were also popular, but that lesbian themes weren't so successful. I was nervous about injecting a lesbian element to my mermaid novel. I mean, a mermaid and a woman just seems so sensual and peaceful to me.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

That's a very het-centric view of the field. Are a lot of straight women reading m/m? Yes. But straight women aren't the only women reading.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I didn't really know what to make of it. :/

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's what my sales numbers and my publishers bear out.

Torquere, one of the few houses that handles lesbian work, says the f/f stories sell about 1/10-1/2 the numbers the m/m does. And my numbers bear this out at 1/2 to 1/3.

Ellora's Cave has just started taking girls again, saying they'll give it a shot on a trial basis. But they aren't expecting much.

Then again, according to my personal sales numbers, straight couples sell about 150 copies to every 900 my gay couples do. (The menage story is even more pathetic)

Write your lesbian mermaid novel. It sounds terrific.