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Wow, that's great all the major stores stock their titles. I haven't seen any in my local B&N in New Jersey, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right section.
My Waldenbooks carries Samhain titles and my local mall is the major one for our county. (I'm in Silverdale, WA)
The romance ebook vendors have started to recognize this field. (Ellora's Cave came to it later than others. Their original guidelines once said that they didn't accept gay romances because they were only interested in women's fantasies. )
But bookstores probably don't know what to do with the books. An e-publisher can put something under more than one category -- they can call them romances and still categorize them as m/m as well as under other categories. But bookstores can only put them in one place. They probably realize that if they m/m romance under the romance section, some people will buy them by mistake and then get angry. Let's hope that changes.
Buy them by mistake?! I haven't seen a gay romance cover yet that didn't make it absolutely clear just what was going on inside the book.
Some of them embarrassingly so.
What's bizarre about that to me is the plethora of yaoi (sp?) titles shelved with the romance and young adult romance novels. It's especially entertaining to me, living in the most conservative county in Texas, to see these young teen girls eagerly browsing the shelves for all the covers with the boys cuddling on the front. I have the feeling that most of the parents don't even realize their children are reading some occasionally rather explicit m/m romances. I'd think most of the parents don't even know these books are on the shelves.
It's good to see it all becoming more and more mainstream. And Samhain's on the ball, publishing it.
Samhain just made the announcement on Dear Author today that when they reopen, they'll be focusing only on romance oriented submissions. Most likely due to their readers' high interest in the genre. Angela James said they're getting a good amount of reader requests for more urban fantasy, futuristic and interracial yet not enough submissions in those areas. (Hint hint.)
Samhain just made the announcement on Dear Author today that when they reopen, they'll be focusing only on romance oriented submissions. Most likely due to their readers' high interest in the genre. Angela James said they're getting a good amount of reader requests for more urban fantasy, futuristic and interracial yet not enough submissions in those areas. (Hint hint.)
But . . . but . . .
I've got a full with them right now. They asked for revisions, and I made them, and . . . it's a thriller . . .
I think you'd be okay since they may be referring to future submissions after they re-open.