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Actually, all the black bars were put in there by me. 2Loose always gave me uncovered works. I've never been told a cover was bad or good, have just noticed that a book didn't seem to be generally available, so I changed the cover, and voila! now it's out there. But I feel like the cover needs to be as suggestive as possible.
Upon further considerations, I don't see a future for myself in YA. Stripping out the erotic would leave essentially nothing, and leaving in the erotic for under-18s is just . . . no, never.
LOL - A YA "Female Recreational" would be a lot shorter!
Covers are an interesting dilemma. You want to stand out, and represent the content accurately, which by necessity requires a suggestive cover. But I've been burned as well, without even any nudity - just too provocative. So arbitrary.
As for YA, I think here's so much wonderful literary content there in something like Female, Recreational that surpasses what most YA novels have, even after you strip out the erotic stuff. Important lessons for young adults. But then again, literotica is a genre that deserves more respect and deserves such fantastic work to remain within it.
I think we all can continue to advance the art until such time as lit professors are discussing these works alongside vanilla stuff. :-) The only reason I'm writing at all is because I find the genre to be incredibly inspiring, and I suspect many of us have the same motivation.
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Actually, all the black bars were put in there by me. 2Loose always gave me uncovered works. I've never been told a cover was bad or good, have just noticed that a book didn't seem to be generally available, so I changed the cover, and voila! now it's out there. But I feel like the cover needs to be as suggestive as possible.Upon further considerations, I don't see a future for myself in YA. Stripping out the erotic would leave essentially nothing, and leaving in the erotic for under-18s is just . . . no, never.
LOL - A YA "Female Recreational" would be a lot shorter!
Covers are an interesting dilemma. You want to stand out, and represent the content accurately, which by necessity requires a suggestive cover. But I've been burned as well, without even any nudity - just too provocative. So arbitrary.As for YA, I think here's so much wonderful literary content there in something like Female, Recreational that surpasses what most YA novels have, even after you strip out the erotic stuff. Important lessons for young adults. But then again, literotica is a genre that deserves more respect and deserves such fantastic work to remain within it.
I think we all can continue to advance the art until such time as lit professors are discussing these works alongside vanilla stuff. :-) The only reason I'm writing at all is because I find the genre to be incredibly inspiring, and I suspect many of us have the same motivation.
I notice that 2Loose2Trek had to resort to black bars on some of your earlier books. Strategic positioning did the job on the rest.
Probably, for a YA series, depicting your character with her/his body strategically blocked in a way that allowed visible cuffs, chains, or collar, would be effective. Some literotica author's covers don't allude directly to sex at all. One of Ashley Zacharias's books just shows a backgammon board. Also. I've noticed that some older erotica - which originally had nudes on the covers - have been republished with suggestive objects: handcuffs, chains, collars against a solid background. I agree with you about your early covers. No revision needed. They would probably be okay for a YA audience as well. As a real fan, I'll be interested to see what you come up with in a YA Female Recreational series.