Reply #19: honestly, where I think the market is [View All]

is among younger people who are closeted to themselves or otherwise out of the mainstream. These are the ones that are attracted to all the far out, mythological stuff like Tolkien, etc. They don't know what they are, but they know they are different. Why these characters can't just be characters doesn't make sense to me. Wonder why the publishing people think it has to be marketed as gay? If the writing is strong enough the fans of that genre will eat it up no matter, they are unconventional to begin with. If it's real erotic it may scare the publishers...and maybe some of the readers...or maybe not. I remember as a teen reading a sci-fi kind of book named "Pin" where a brother and sister were the main character and this Pin thing was a robot and the brother helped him have sex with the sister. Freaking bizarre, but it was one of those paperbacks that sold well. So who knows.

Xena did really, really well, with the Gabriel romance undertone. Plus, I always thought the lesbian thing was very marketable to straight guys, even if that's not the audience you want.