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Haha no, LGBT really isn't my thing. I mean guy-girl romance, and not erotica. Think regular paranormal romance except with a male protag and female love interests.
Oh. Urm. Well I don't know what the audience is for that. Paranormal is a plus. Females would surely still read it anyway so anyone who likes paranormal romance should like it. I keep thinking when you say male = male audience but that's not it. There shouldn't be any issue.
Harry Dresden
Okay the focus isn't the romance, but heck, he sure do love his women. Personally I love, love, love romances/books with romantic elements from the male POV.
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You say 'female love INTERESTS' as in more than one? If so, it'd probably be marketed as urban fantasy and you're better off pitching it as that, IMO. It can still be heavily romantic.
What Irysangel said. No problem with strong male POV, though genre Romance usually tends toward the female POV side. Obviously no problem with Paranormal Romances.
But unless there's a strong focus on one developing love relationship and a single couple HEA, it's not going to be easy to market it as genre Romance.
But unless there's a strong focus on one developing love relationship and a single couple HEA, it's not going to be easy to market it as genre Romance.
There are a lot of romance writers out there who balance the POV between male and female so I don't see a huge different in having all male. Although bucking the accepted format might cause you some grief, especially if your try to sell it as straight romance...I'd take the suggestion from above and sell it as UF with a heavy romantic subplot.
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To be perfectly honest, my books are told from a female 1st person POV and has ongoing love-interests in the series.
I pitched it to agents as urban fantasy with a dose of sex. My agent pitched it as urban fantasy with a dose of sex. My editor wanted it as paranormal erotica. Marketing came back and said we should package it as straight up paranormal romance.
Marketing won. We toned down the sex in a few places, and it became paranormal romance.
The only reason mine is PNR is because of marketing. I think pushing yours as UF is a safe bet, especially with all the factors you cited.
I pitched it to agents as urban fantasy with a dose of sex. My agent pitched it as urban fantasy with a dose of sex. My editor wanted it as paranormal erotica. Marketing came back and said we should package it as straight up paranormal romance.
Marketing won. We toned down the sex in a few places, and it became paranormal romance.
The only reason mine is PNR is because of marketing. I think pushing yours as UF is a safe bet, especially with all the factors you cited.
I don't really read paranormal. But of the few romance novels told from the male perspective, I love them. It's like sneaking a peak into what we want to believe men think. (Usually it's a woman's author.)
However from books like Nicolas Sparks (ughh), his fanciful way of looking at perfect women slightly annoys me.
I heard about a book coauthored by a male/female, and I've been meaning to buy it.
Either way this type of story told in the male POV mostly might be delicious!
However from books like Nicolas Sparks (ughh), his fanciful way of looking at perfect women slightly annoys me.
I heard about a book coauthored by a male/female, and I've been meaning to buy it.
Either way this type of story told in the male POV mostly might be delicious!
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That would be Urban Fantasy. Not MY idea, but it's how an acquisitions editor and/or agent would look at it.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is a good example. He eventually gets a romantic interest and is max in love with the lady.
The Vampire Files by P.N. Elrod: Her vampire falls hard for one girl and sticks with her through thick and thin.
And Simon R. Greene's Man with the Golden Torc has tons of action adventure, but the MC falls for a talented and hawt witch.
The focus in these: mystery/problem over romance, but romance is included.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is a good example. He eventually gets a romantic interest and is max in love with the lady.
The Vampire Files by P.N. Elrod: Her vampire falls hard for one girl and sticks with her through thick and thin.
And Simon R. Greene's Man with the Golden Torc has tons of action adventure, but the MC falls for a talented and hawt witch.
The focus in these: mystery/problem over romance, but romance is included.
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There is 100% male POV paranormal romance on the shelves already. So at the very least it is possible. But we already kinda covered this in your other thread.
It's possible, and it has been successfully done. When it includes the erotic romance among the paranormal and the action elements.
An example is Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series. Since The Darkest Pleasure, the books focused more on the male POV, and the fans love it. You can read excerpts in this page.
http://genashowalter.com/series/Lords-of-the-Underworld/
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