Fifty Shades of Romance!

Fifty Shades of Romance What’s the difference between erotica, porn (or “mommy porn,” my new least favorite term), and romance? It’s a question we’ve been asked a lot here this summer.  Editor May Chen has been interviewed extensively by national media, appearing in print features in Time Magazine, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and more – And even after all that, as PW notes, “the mainstream media does not always correctly identify what this book is—at least by the subgenre standards that exist within the romance community—is also a conversation that has cropped up in the romance community.”  So for me, it’s been a season of talking to journalists, to readers, to authors, booksellers and librarians about this pervasive phenomenon. And even if the general populace cannot agree if this book is erotica, romance, romantica, we all agree: call Fifty Shades what you may, because it’s created a gateway. Bestselling author...

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