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More publishers mount erotica bandwagon

15.06.12 | Charlotte Williams

Erotica is continuing to steam-up acquisition meetings, with 19th July a potential sweet spot as both Simon & Schuster and Orion ready new releases.

Simon & Schuster is publishing Rebecca Chance's Naughty Bits, a collection of the romance author's scenes from earlier novels which were "too hot to print", with scene-setting introductions, an exclusive short story, and the first chapter of her next title, as a 99p e-book.

Fiction editorial director Maxine Hitchcock said: "With this rise in interest in erotica, we thought this was a fantastic opportunity. Sometimes in the context of a traditional book, less is more, but we never wanted to bin any of the scenes." She said the idea of publishing deleted scenes could have potential outside the genre, perhaps in publishing richer description of SFF worlds.

Meanwhile, Orion deputy publisher Jon Wood and editor Jemima Forrester paid a six-figure sum for UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in the Eighty Days erotica trilogy from agent Sarah Such. The titles are written by Vina Jackson, a pseudonym of two writers, one well-known, working together for the first time, with the story focusing on the "sexually charged relationship between two strangers".

The first title, Eighty Days Yellow, will be published on 19th July in mass market paperback and e-book, followed by Eighty Days Blue and Eighty Days Red later this year.

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By Maggie_Craig

Eighty Days Yellow, Blue & Red? Do I detect a certain lack of originality here? Quelle surprise.

I guess you can't argue with sales but it's depressing that traditional publishers, caught like rabbits in the headlights by the digital revolution, are doing what they always have done. Jump on a bandwagon, drive the horse till it drops dead and then flog it in the hope it'll get up again. And it seems impossible to address this subject without tripping over double entendres.

To each his/her own, but is this the day that story died?

http://maggiecraig.co.uk

Thu, 21/06/2012 - 16:45
By Fleetstreet

Lemmings indeed, O.L.A.

Next up, an charged novel titled "The Lost Code to Sixty People I Want to Religiously Shag in a School of Magic"

Wed, 20/06/2012 - 22:29
By Adele Ward

It's quite funny that the sex scenes cut from novels as not being justifiable or relevant could end up in books with only the erotic fragments, and everything else being cut out as irrelevant. I have a feeling they might get a little tedious with not enough build up and staying power.

Fri, 15/06/2012 - 14:39
By DannyBlack

The image of a bunch of priapic publishers eagerly 'mounting the erotica bandwagon' is not one I wish to envisage. It quite put me off my elevensies!

Fri, 15/06/2012 - 12:19
By DannyBlack

The image of a bunch of priapic publishers eagerly 'mounting the erotica bandwagon' is not one I wish to envisage. It quite put me off my elevensies!

Fri, 15/06/2012 - 12:19
By Adele Ward

It's quite funny that the sex scenes cut from novels as not being justifiable or relevant could end up in books with only the erotic fragments, and everything else being cut out as irrelevant. I have a feeling they might get a little tedious with not enough build up and staying power.

Fri, 15/06/2012 - 14:39
By Fleetstreet

Lemmings indeed, O.L.A.

Next up, an charged novel titled "The Lost Code to Sixty People I Want to Religiously Shag in a School of Magic"

Wed, 20/06/2012 - 22:29
By Maggie_Craig

Eighty Days Yellow, Blue & Red? Do I detect a certain lack of originality here? Quelle surprise.

I guess you can't argue with sales but it's depressing that traditional publishers, caught like rabbits in the headlights by the digital revolution, are doing what they always have done. Jump on a bandwagon, drive the horse till it drops dead and then flog it in the hope it'll get up again. And it seems impossible to address this subject without tripping over double entendres.

To each his/her own, but is this the day that story died?

http://maggiecraig.co.uk

Thu, 21/06/2012 - 16:45

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