Sick Of Sex? And Millenia Black Is Suing Her Publishers…
Friday, October 6, 2006Posted in: Uncategorized
I see Millenia Black is suing. Good for her. I’ve been wondering if she was going to take the whole changing colour thing lying down. I’m not sure if she’ll win, but at least somebody’s taking a stand. It only takes one person to make a difference after all…
In other news, Jordan Summers tells us that she’s sick of sex. It’s an interesting column. Are you guys sick of overblown monkey sex in romance yet? Go read.
Tilly Greene
October 7
12:00 pm
I am absolutely shocked over Millenia Black’s plight. How dare a publisher tell her to change the race of her characters…her story, her vision, hands off!
Back when I was a bookseller at an independent shop I remember the one reader came in and asked for our African American section. I told her we don’t seperate the work in that way, fiction is fiction. She left, verbally chastising us because we didn’t respect the reader and their choices. I guess no matter which way you place them on the shelf, there will be someone who doesn’t like it.
As for Summer’s take on too much sex and wild flaying limbs, well, I can only speak for myself. When I started writing sex scenes I became less interested in them when I read for pleasure. I’ve never had a publisher ask for more sex scenes, and if they did I would question whether I was at the right publishing house.
Anonymous
October 9
10:24 pm
“I can’t tell you how many times I have been reading books where the hero and the heroine are in peril (one or both are severely injured) and then wham, they’re ripping their clothes off and he’s taking her anally. Blink. Uh, your wound barely stopped bleeding. How are you physically able to do that? For that matter, what happened to the bad guy? He was right behind you.” This is my favorite direct quote from Jordan Summer’s blog.
The last question and answer… let me answer for the hero, “he is still right behind me but now participating with my own anal deflowering!”
All things are a pendulum and if you are around long enough you see the pendulum swing towards too much sex and then back away again. Write what you feel and find the publishers that will buy it. That is always my motto!
Maria
Anonymous
December 14
5:07 pm
“Tilly Greene said… I am absolutely shocked over Millenia Black’s plight. How dare a publisher tell her to change the race of her characters…her story, her vision, hands off!”
For one of the largest U.S. publishers to treat an author of any ethnicity in such undignified manner in 2006, depicts America all together is in a very deep hole of moral depravity. To have heads of huge industries engage in racism in everyday business-as-usual style, is hypocrisy to what America wants the world to believe. More unfortunately, too many minorities take the abhorrent treatment on suppressant feelings