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[truepenny]

Finder reviews The Virtu for GLBT Fantasy Fiction Resources, and is disappointed.

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My contributor's copies of All Hallows 41 arrived today. My story, "Drowning Palmer," is a Booth novella, and I am very bouncy over it seeing print.

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There is an irony involved in the fact that I have been beating my head against the wall over a sex scene for the past several days, when some large percentage of the people who read the book will probably not notice anything except the sex. And some of them will be offended by it.

But it's my own fault for giving my protagonist such a wealth of psychosexual hangups, and anyway, I'd know if I cheated and would not like myself for it.

Comments

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

I will notice everything and I will love it and you - so write for me - and those like me.

JD

[marith.livejournal.com]

I'll notice and be glad for the painstaking craft that makes the characters believable. So will many others. Yay for not cheating all around. :)

[oracne.livejournal.com]

If you want other opinions on the sex scene, I am willing to help.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

As long as you write with bodies firmly in mind, the sex won't disappoint or embarrass.

(I recently read a sex scene which was supposed to be heterosex but which was clearly clueless about heterosex. It was ghastly.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

But it's my own fault for giving my protagonist such a wealth of psychosexual hangups, and anyway, I'd know if I cheated and would not like myself for it.

And we probably wouldn't like the character so much either. Hang-ups make the man (ooh, ooh, Sayers flashback - nine tailors make a man. Bells, hang-ups, ooh, bad pun rising from the fog, back off quickly...). But you know what I mean, of course you do - it's about honesty and complexity and (as you say) wealth. And you know you don't write for those large percentages, and doubly not for those who decide to take offence. You write for us, and we at least are grateful.