File this under "you have got to be kidding me": someone who really should know better implied all non-shifter mpreg is omegaverse.
Is All Mpreg Omegaverse?
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The Straights Can Pry Omegaverse from My Cold, Dead Hands
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Recently, a social media site tried to entice me to buy a cishet OV romance novel. It was ... unhinged, to say the least.
Update: Cautionary Tales of Reader/Author Conventions Imploding
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(Letícia Alvares / Pexels.com) Well, I’m back from hiatus, and it seems a fair bit has happened in the time I was away. One of the things I’ve been watching develop over the last year or so has been the implosion of some of these reader/author conventions. That’s exactly as I predicted last spring. Look, I don’t like being right about people getting screwed over. Maybe I’ve just been around...
Do Omegaverse Dynamics Promote Toxic Relationships?
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“Oh, here we go again …” (Liza Summer / Pexels.com) Recently, I was reminded of a screencap of a conversation that supposedly happened. When I saw it, all I could think was ah, the straights got a hold of the omegaverse. In this screencap, the texter was discussing their partner’s admission that they liked and read omegaverse fiction. The texter was sending a lengthy rumination...
Why Are Readers Demanding Less Spicy Reads?
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Or Are They? I recently saw a post that commented on trends in the publishing industry. One of them was that readers seem to be shifting away from so-called spicy reads. (Tom Swinnen / Pexels.com) The post gave some good reasons that this shift might be happening—but I think there’s likely more to the story than meets the eye. TikTok Ramped Up and Ruined “Spice” The major reason this post gave...
My Roman Empire Was Queer AF
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(Filipp Romanovski / Pexels.com) One of my fav things about June is how much queerness comes out of the woodwork. Another fav thing is seeing certain quarters of society try to push back on it. And one of my fav arguments is that queerness is a modern invention. While that’s true to some degree, the historical record shows us queer people have existed since time immemorial. They maybe didn’t call...
Why We Need Queer Books More Than Ever (Again)
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At this point, I feel like I’m writing one of these posts at least every year, but it remains true. We need queer books now, more than ever before. (Sharon McCutcheon / Pexels.com) Why are queer books so important in this particular epoch? Well, we can argue queer books are important for queer people so they can recognize themselves in the pages of fiction. That’s what I’ve argued before, and...
What Is With All These Book Retreats?
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A book shop often fulfills similar functions, including author events (Iryna Varanovich / Pexels.com) A recent trend I’ve noticed is the sudden abundance of “author” or “reader retreats”—events designed to put authors and readers in close contact. Many of these are cropping up in the romance space, where readers might be fanatical about an author’s work. Authors, certainly, are always looking for...
Arr, Matey: Book Piracy and the Indie Author
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Ahoy, matey! The Jolly Roger ready to set sail with a boatload of booty– I mean, books. (Mike Bird / Pexels.com) At this stage in the game, we all know book piracy is pretty rampant. Whether it’s someone in a country where the major stores don’t operate, or it’s someone who is tight on cash who still really wants to read a book, or someone is trying to stick it to “the man,” or it’s someone...
Writing Unapologetically Smutty Romance in a Conservative Era
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Or, Why Respectability Won’t Save You I think we can all agree we’ve entered a rather conservative era. It’s been a while coming, the first rumblings of it emerging fifteen years ago now. It gained momentum after the 2016 US election and snowballed from there. The pandemic threw fuel on the fire, and, well, here we are. Neo-fascists and alt-right parties are gaining support across the globe. We...
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