tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post8674391103855459876..comments2023-09-05T12:51:25.656-05:00Comments on edittorrent: She's Baaa-aaack!Edittorrenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295505709568570553noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-43139097730087372162008-07-10T11:03:00.000-05:002008-07-10T11:03:00.000-05:00Welcome back, Theresa! My condolences on the death...Welcome back, Theresa! My condolences on the death in your family. I can certainly sympathize.<BR/>Um, just a gentle reminder - before you 'disappeared' you wrote that you had thoughts on Pitch 5 that you'd post later. Is it later yet? [grin]Dave Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773380114295267509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-80954790020430881422008-07-09T11:41:00.000-05:002008-07-09T11:41:00.000-05:00Theresa - (Welcome back, BTW!)I like both the sati...Theresa - (Welcome back, BTW!)<BR/><BR/>I like both the satin sheets and the models on the Secrets covers. As smokin' hot as the Secrets series is, I feel the covers are still discreet enough to take into the light of day. ;) Thank you for that!<BR/><BR/>While I agree that totally nekkid people on the cover of other books I've seen gets the content point across, it's not very inventive, is it?<BR/><BR/>A close up of hands/arms reaching for each other over a background of satin sheets would not only tell me what the book is about, but intrigue me as well.<BR/><BR/>I believe the cover art should be as powerful as the well-plotted book (or books) inside.<BR/><BR/>I am sure there are numbers somewhere saying how many people are compelled to pick up a book merely by seeing the cover.<BR/><BR/>I even tend to choose down-loadable books that have great covers when I browse around in ebook land.<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/>G.Genella deGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13129942813842907408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-74283771351811886492008-07-09T10:39:00.000-05:002008-07-09T10:39:00.000-05:00Theresa,I hope I'm interpreting number 6 above cor...Theresa,<BR/>I hope I'm interpreting number 6 above correctly. My story has been rejected for being a "man's book". True, the MC is male, as are the two main supporting characters, but there are two strong female characters, a lover and the lover's mother. I believe my themes, slavery, Manifest Destiny, and corruption in religion, if not universal, would be of interest to both genders. However, I am concerned about it being perceived to be targeted to a male audience.Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03077791761104576436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-51667500361535247152008-07-09T10:07:00.000-05:002008-07-09T10:07:00.000-05:00For me, I get the less hot stuff as paperbacks so ...For me, I get the less hot stuff as paperbacks so I can trade it, give it to my Mom or donate it to the retirement center where my RWA chapter meets. I can't do that with ebooks! (Or kink *laugh*) I get my reading in e-form when I can, but if it's a particularly mainstream selection, I will go paper.Jody W. and Meankittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733607365443126784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-68428470376188525982008-07-09T09:31:00.000-05:002008-07-09T09:31:00.000-05:00Jwhit, no, I mean an actual book cover with cover ...Jwhit, no, I mean an actual book cover with cover art that shows something other than nekkid bodies.<BR/><BR/>Porn is different, and I can't speak to their requirements, but I know a thing or two about erotic romance. In the very early days, back before there were e-books or any official "erotic romance" subgenre, the first Secrets anthologies had flowers on the covers. They were discreet and elegant but didn't give readers any insight at all to the contents. <BR/><BR/>Next came the wrinkled sheets covers. A lot of people don't like those. I do. I like the monochromatic schemes -- and if you're paying attention to these things, you probably have noticed that a lot of erotic romances from the big presses have color overlays to create a monochromatic feel. But alas, when you're doing books in a series, as we are with the anthos, you start to run out of colors to help people identify one antho from the other. I've heard readers refer to different anthos as "the blue sheets" and "the burgundy sheets." We would have ended up like a crayon box -- "No, volume 30 is the aquamarine volume, and 29 is sky blue. Can't you tell them apart?"<BR/><BR/>But the wrinkled sheets at least gave a sense of what was, er, between the sheets. <BR/><BR/>And that's where we get into trouble. You know what? I'm going to take this to the front page. I feel a genuine blog post coming on.<BR/><BR/>TheresaEdittorrenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295505709568570553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-1914551287397742662008-07-09T06:01:00.000-05:002008-07-09T06:01:00.000-05:00If anyone wants to look at an ensemble piece, they...If anyone wants to look at an ensemble piece, they could do worse than look at Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers. Blyton does some very clever things with omni, and one of them is that you get a strong sense of a main protagonist... who actually does not spend a whole lot of time on-screen. But even when the action is carried by someone else, Darrel is there at the beginning of the book, and the end of the book, and every time the someone else's subplot needs a spearcarrier. Someone plays a trick in class? Darrel is shown laughing. Someone needs to carry a note to a teacher? Darrel runs the errand. So even when she's not involved much, she's always present.green_knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16499896006012152260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-16645872489011724212008-07-09T04:20:00.000-05:002008-07-09T04:20:00.000-05:00Teresa, you mean like the plain brown wrapper? Or ...Teresa, you mean like the plain brown wrapper? Or putting a 'dirty' magazine inside a text book? No, I never did that in my life, but it is a bit cliche about doing it.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if there is some flow over effect from online porn gazing to computer accessible erotica, so that accessing the book on screen seems natural. I'm not a porn person either, so that is just a hypothesis.<BR/><BR/>BTW, welcome back!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-38018961378853447032008-07-08T18:38:00.000-05:002008-07-08T18:38:00.000-05:00Yes, that's kind of my theory too. The shame fact...Yes, that's kind of my theory too. The shame factor. I'm just wondering if there might be other elements involved. I mean, we hear over and over again that people don't like curling up with a good computer screen. So how is it that digital kink is able to break past that objection? If we were to package erotic romance. In such a way that nobody can tell what it was -- for example, putting flowers on the cover -- does that mean that erotic romance e-books stop selling?Edittorrenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295505709568570553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-58311522644852715362008-07-08T17:40:00.000-05:002008-07-08T17:40:00.000-05:00I'd have to back Cameron b's theory on why erotic ...I'd have to back Cameron b's theory on why erotic e-books sell better than those same books in print. Unfortunately, there are still many individuals who are "in the closet" about their reading material.<BR/><BR/>I also wanted to agree with you that manuscripts without a clear protagonist are frustrating. I'm working on editing just such a text at the moment (luckily a developmental edit), and a large part of my problem is that the text seems to switch between protagonists in an unclear fashion that doesn't make much sense. While I understand multiple protagonists, I think limiting to a small number is key as well as making it blatantly clear who is acting as the protagonist in which scene.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824896765631412903.post-55796925079307085142008-07-08T16:07:00.000-05:002008-07-08T16:07:00.000-05:00The answer about kinky books selling better electr...The answer about kinky books selling better electronically than in print is pretty simple, I think. If you're in the mood for a bisexual werewolf threesome book, there's a pretty good chance you don't want the whole world to know it, and with print, you've got a potentially suggestive cover as well as back cover copy (for your kids, roommate or spouse to stumble over) and you've got to bring the bisexual werewolf book up to the clerk at your Barnes and Noble. <BR/><BR/>Digital kink can be purchased discreetly, kept tucked away in locked or innocently labeled folders on your computer, and no one has to know you're reading them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com