07-26-2012, 12:47 PM | #31 |
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I'm trying to come up with a suitable pseudonym simply because I want to keep "that life" separate from "this life". A big part of the reason is Goodreads and MobileRead - I enjoy my active online life as a reader and I don't want that being complicated when I'm participating, especially on GR. Plus, having seen how some authors act on GR, and how readers can get nuts when engaging them... I don't want to be any more a part of that than I have to be. I don't do drama.
There are music and film projects that I work on under my own name, and I want to keep that separate as well. I function better when I compartmentalize. |
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I do, however, have a good comeback for people who get sniffy about sex in novels. During a sex scene is where your character are at their most exposed and honest. Society manners and fancy clothes are gone, what is left is the real person, stripped back to bedrock. |
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07-26-2012, 04:25 PM | #33 |
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I have used a pen name for my shorts which are mainly chick lit, but decided to use my real name for my novels, which I liked to think were dramas with a romantic element. I'm coming to the conclusion that they are actually romances with a dramatic element, and border on chick lit like my shorts. <sigh>
But I think I'll keep the division. |
07-26-2012, 04:30 PM | #34 |
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I only see three books on your website, Eileen, science fiction all of them, with the promise of an erotic book set in Regency London, presumably not out yet. So what have you published that can be classed as erotic?
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Yes, it's filthy! And more in the works, either accepted and awaiting publication, or under edits, and the current WIP should be a big one. |
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Be honest: how many erotica stories would sell as stories without the sex? If the author took out the sex, would they still have a saleable story, or is it the sex that sells the story? |
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But is it the sex that's selling it? ie, do you think you'd have the same level of sales if you'd published the story without the sex? It would be an interesting experiment to publish the same story with and without sex, and compare sales, don't you think?
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07-27-2012, 08:39 AM | #39 | |
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You're defining porn even more subjectively than Justice Potter did. You aren't just saying "I know it when I see it" but "If anyone thinks it, then it is." Pornography is not merely anything that appeals to prurient interests. If a kid looks at Nat Geo just for the naked natives, does that make it porn? If the native was a kid, is NatGeo guilty of child pornography? Is every attractive woman who passes by a heterosexual male on the street a porn performer? |
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That may, however, be a fairly accurate definition of erotica. Erotica without the sex, as I mentioned elsewhere, would be called "romance," no? Bringing this back on topic (slighty): Misty Rain: Erotica pseudonym Misty Canyon: Porn psuedonym Last edited by ApK; 07-27-2012 at 09:24 AM. |
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I was quite shocked when I flicked through a "Mills and Boone" romance fairly recently. I'd been under the impression that it was strictly "no sex" romance. It seems that's no longer the case! |
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Without the sex, it would be a romance. Girl wants to walk on the wild side. Boy likes girl, decides to give her an adventure. Adventure goes wrong, girl goes home, boy still likes girl so hides the fact that he likes the wild side. When she finds out, she gets really pissed, does nasty things to him while he's asleep (and of course his friends put it on youtube). complications ensue until they both admit their love and HEA. It's a story which works, but add in some sizzling sex and it's a much better story. |
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The only reason I ever read it . In my case the use of a psuedonym is a no-brainer. I have a full time job, working from home a lot, and when I do finally publish, I don't want to do so under my real name for fear of raising questions in the minds of those I work for (even though they do get their fair pound of flesh out of me). |
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For what it's worth, it doesn't make any difference. I write pretty racy erotica under my own name, and I'm astonished by how few people I know actually read it. Only the people who read erotica anyway. My non-kinky friends and family don't bother, so they have no idea what is actually in it.
Unless you have a unique name, the chances are that even if you have a best seller flying off the shelves in your local bookshop, people won't connect it to you unless you tell them. |
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