J. Quantaman
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Annette Gisby:
I notice you deal with LGT relationships. My novels touch on those as well, but romance is secondary to the plot and not explicit. What is the best way to let readers know these subjects will be covered without antagonizing the narrow-minded folks?
Annette Gisby
Hi, J
The Chosen was written primarily as a romance between two male characters, so I have always promoted it as that and as a gay m/m romance book.
In another novel I have, one of the side characters is a lesbian, but I haven't mentioned that anywhere that I can think of, but it appeared on a list about books with LGBT characters somwhere, so someone must know about it. :)
Hmm. I've read various fantasy and thrillers, where the main characters happened to be gay and love or romance played a part as well, but it wasn't necessarily mentioned in the blurb. Richard Morgan's fantasy series starting with The Steel Remains has 3 main characters, 1 gay male, 1 straight male, and 1 lesbian woman. Nowhere was that mentioned in the blurb as far as I remember.
You could add at the bottom of your blurb something like LGBT friendly and leave it at that. If it's not a romance genre book, I don't think you'd need to be any more explicit than that. A lot of people like to see the LGBT label, even if it isn't a romance as they like to read books that contain diverse characters.
The Chosen was written primarily as a romance between two male characters, so I have always promoted it as that and as a gay m/m romance book.
In another novel I have, one of the side characters is a lesbian, but I haven't mentioned that anywhere that I can think of, but it appeared on a list about books with LGBT characters somwhere, so someone must know about it. :)
Hmm. I've read various fantasy and thrillers, where the main characters happened to be gay and love or romance played a part as well, but it wasn't necessarily mentioned in the blurb. Richard Morgan's fantasy series starting with The Steel Remains has 3 main characters, 1 gay male, 1 straight male, and 1 lesbian woman. Nowhere was that mentioned in the blurb as far as I remember.
You could add at the bottom of your blurb something like LGBT friendly and leave it at that. If it's not a romance genre book, I don't think you'd need to be any more explicit than that. A lot of people like to see the LGBT label, even if it isn't a romance as they like to read books that contain diverse characters.
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