OK, completely out of the SNIFF loop here, but I was catching up on your plans to take over the RL publishing world (you know you're part of my morning routine, right?) and I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago in the Boston Globe. Apparently there's a new line of romance books targeted at the gay male audience but (surprise surprise) also bought by women. I'm not sure how *ahem* explicit they get, probably not very much, but they gave a small excerpt in the Globe (I do love my extremely liberal newspaper) and it seemed not bodice-ripping romantic, but kind of oblique, notice-the-details sort of thing. I guess if I had to compare that small paragraph to anyone in fandom it would be witling.
So all this is leading up to saying that while I really hope you don't abandon all of us here, there just might be an emerging market for people in this fandom who want to start actually being paid for their labors of love. The author profiled in the Globe was of course a gay man, but you know, the publishing house *should* take note of the fact that they do know, from survey data, that women are buying these books, and why not have women write them too?
Gay cowboys, my god. You are so funny, can't wait to see it. But what about SMCD????
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:41 am (UTC)From:So all this is leading up to saying that while I really hope you don't abandon all of us here, there just might be an emerging market for people in this fandom who want to start actually being paid for their labors of love. The author profiled in the Globe was of course a gay man, but you know, the publishing house *should* take note of the fact that they do know, from survey data, that women are buying these books, and why not have women write them too?
Gay cowboys, my god. You are so funny, can't wait to see it. But what about SMCD????