The sempiternal question now tackled by the popular gay website AfterElton.com. They conducted a survey amongst their readers/commenters and are presenting the results as an article. As they do mention (women reading) m/m fiction and slash, I'm linking to it here.

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What makes gay couples hot to women? Certainly aesthetics plays a role. ( Read more... )

Discussion over at Reviewsbyjessewave.com: http://www.reviewsbyjessewave.com/?p=11198

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Award season is upon us which must mean that it’s time for active campaigning and “vote for me” signs everywhere in bookland. Does this work in terms of getting books to be noticed and/or nominated? Sometimes it’s really humbling to see the depths to ( Read more... )

Reviewer Kassa is discussing one of the popular tropes in M/M fiction on her blog.

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Do you like Gay for You story lines ( Read more... )

Given that the majority of m/m readers read and purchase e-books, I think this is a discussion many will find interesting:

A reader, quoted in a New York Times article, said that she shared her Kindle purchases with friends by linking them to her account. Some authors called her a thief, saying that she was violating their copyrights. Dear Author ( Read more... )

Author Luisa Prieto has written an article on ebook-piracy and its consequences to authors, publishers and readers on the MLR blog here: http://www.mlrpressauthors.com/2009/10/piratesnot-the-sexy-kind-by-luisa-prieto/

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The site should’ve been an author’s dream. All these threads talking about books, places to get them, the excitement of ( Read more... )

Josh Lanyon talks about this topic on the Loose Id Authors Blog here: http://looseidauthors.blogspot.com/2009/10/mama-always-told-me.html

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I come from a writing tradition where you don't acknowledge reviews. At most you send a curt little thanks! because it's all supposed to be very professional and hands off.

But here in the blogosphere that ( Read more... )

In case anyone missed this, author Jordan Castillo Price has had one of her PsyCop novels plagiarized and passed off as a Merlin fanfic by
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 Original fiction writer formerly known on Livejournal as Sansa1970 has changed her LJ-username to 
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Reviewer Kassa does her cost-analysis for ebook publisher Samhain Publishing here: http://kassa-rvws.livejournal.com/62071.html

Evil or necessary? Reviewer Kassa is discussing that on her blog here: http://kassa-rvws.livejournal.com/61562.html

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There are well known e-published erotic romance authors that also write young adult and some make their new pen names known and others do not. Some have stated they don’t want to make the connection between the ( Read more... )