As many of you know, I write male/male and M/M/F ménage. Chances are, if you visit my blog you may have read a male/male book or two. But if you’ve never read a male/male romance, why not give one a try?
I had never read M/M until a couple years ago. In fact, I didn’t even know that M/M fiction existed and, if I had known, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to read it. I didn’t own an e-reader so I bought my paperbacks from Amazon. But I did like erotic romance. I discovered an EROM author I loved named Jet Mykles. I read one of her Dark Elves series, a M/F book, and really enjoyed it so I kept reading. When I ran out of elves I ordered a book called Heaven Sent. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the description since I knew I liked the author. Imagine my surprise when it arrived and was a M/M book. Two, in fact. It was an anthology of two books called Heaven and Purgatory, both M/M. I started to read, kind of looking over my shoulder to be sure no one was watching! LOL. And I was HOOKED!
Now I write my beautiful boys in all descriptions. My new novel, The Scientist and the Supermodel, is male/male but it’s the prequel to a M/M/F ménage called Genetic Attraction so there is a female element to the book. The other new book, Volley Balls, is a M/M/M ménage with a beautiful man from Laguna and two hunky Australian volleyball players. Here’s what I’ve learned reading and writing male/male books:
- · Male/male books have fewer gender stereotypes. It’s not unusual in these books for both men to be hunky alphas, for one of them to be more effeminate but still very dominant, or any combination.
- · If you are a female reader, you don’t have a woman in these books with whom you automatically identify so you get the experience of identifying with a man.
- · If you’re a gay man reading a M/M book, you get to see your world imagined by someone who has no limitations of your real life constraining the fantasy. No “but that never happened to me so it can’t happen.” You get a bigger fantasy.
- · You get to see two men (or more if you read my books LOL) in love which is very cool. It’s not the same as women in love with men. It’s just not. Since, for many male couples, marriage and family isn’t yet the common practice (hope it will be soon), the relationship has to be about more than security or fulfilling family or societal expectations.
- · Gay or bisexual men still bear huge burdens of discrimination so, even if those issues play a small role in the story, you get to admire the bravery of men who declare their love for each other.
- · And, of course, the simplest reason. If like me you adore men, then two is better!
And just think. If you own an ereader, you don’t even have to glance over your shoulder to see who’s looking! LOL I hope you’ll let some beautiful boys creep into your reading among those alpha men. Of course, i’d be delighted if you want to start with mine but there are a ton of great ones to choose from.
Have you read male/male? What was your “first time”?
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