Hi everyone–
I’m home from RT, exhausted, but happy with the fun and success of the trip! As you know, we did the first ever MM romance panel at RT. In preparation, it got me thinking about all the reasons that woman do love MM romance and why i love writing it.
It’s interesting. Certainly gay men are as diverse and varied as straight men. Maybe more so. And yet, books with gay heroes often seem to me to be stories of two straight guys who happen to be boyfriends. In other words, they’re two alpha, straight-guy heroes who have sex. That’s certainly possible and okay with me, but at the same time, writing gay romance allows me to explore characters who are not pure alpha males. I know gay guys who are as flamboyant as drag queens, those that might as well be your straight uncle Charlie, and everything in between. I like exploring that diversity in my books.
Many of my heroes bend gender. Like Rodney in Fire Balls who is tiny, has pink hair and six earrings but is a black belt in karate and a total alpha male at heart. Or JJ in Snow Balls who is big, hunky, and looks like a football player but is, in fact, more queen than quarterback. Mark in Sinders and Ash can pass as a woman in couture clothes and Quentin in Hearts and Flour is a cross-dresser. Are these guys “too gay” to appeal to woman? My readers say no.
And what on earth is “too gay”? Here is my pal Davey Wavey commenting on that very subject. Enjoy. And thank you for coming by.