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Originally Posted by Blossom
You may be surprised. Romance readers have certain expectations if a book is too light on the romance then you are going to see a lot of negative reviews.
I've seen this happen because of covers too. If the cover has a hot guy on it without a shirt then readers is expecting it to be heavy on the sexy times. If it's too sweet even if it's well written the author is going to get a lot of negative reviews.
I once bought books that had a sweet fully dressed couple on it. It look and sounded like romance. It wasn't. It was erotic romance with kinky bits. It had been previously published with super sexy covers but I didn't know. I don't know if I will ever read those three books. I felt seriously mislead.
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Hi. You just made the point I tried to get across to many an erotic writer about mis-categorizing their stuff.
I told them don't put in romance, put it where it belongs to find your readers.
To me a mis-categorized book says the author knows nothing about readers and that the author probably doesn't know much about writing either so I will pass and go on to someone else.
If I want romance I look in romance, if I want erotica, I look in erotica.
Now I don't mind romance in my erotica but I don't want just sex and no Hea/hfn in my romance.