Lesbian Erotica Rejection Letters

So, I’m off on a bit of a rant…again…about how impossible it is for me to get my Lesbian Erotica and Female Bisexual Erotic published. You may remember my previous rants:
Well, Screw That People
Writing Lesbian Erotica…
(I’m getting quite tired of complaining so hopefully you will forgive this one last instance)

Most of you who know who I am also realize I am multi-published in erotica (I’m not making enough moolah to make the mortgage, but the car payment is officially covered…) and that I usually write BDSM erotica of the M/F or M/M or M/M/F variety. But no one usually asks about my F/F stuff, which BTW is piling up like last weeks laundry. There’s a shitload of it on my harddrive…
Unsold.
Unpublished.
Enough to make me want to cry.

I also have a stack of wonderful rejection letters, mainly in the form of revision requests, asking me to make my F/F story a M/F, just change the gender, right, it’s still the same story…
Who in the hell said that? Yeah, that would be one of my editors.

The other big request has been that if I insist on keeping it F/F, at least add a man…make it a menage…because menage sells…granted M/M/F menage sells better, so if I could just turn one of the F into a M and then make it a menage…

Seriously.
This is what I deal with. Every. Day.

Here’s an excerpt from today’s rejection letter: “The work was very well written, and I enjoyed reading the sexual elements, straight and lesbian. All were very well done. However, the work on balance is not a good fit for our erotic romance profile.”

This time I was not asked for a revision, so I have no way of knowing whether they would have liked it better if I’d menage’d it or M/F’d it, but I would almost bet cold hard cash that it was one or the other.

I said I wasn’t going to cave under pressure…but today I am leaning toward an avalanche. I think I’m going to menage PornStar which is a story so near and dear to my heart, I want to have sex with both F/F’s in the story…and I desperately want it published.
Sadly, there is also a hunky ex, very alpha male in the story I’d also have sex with…but only if I got to wear the strap on because I think he’s a real jerk who needs it up the a** a time or three…but who my other editors love so much they want him in on part of the action. Dear Goddess, I cannot believe I am even considering it…

Here is the ONLY reason I am considering it…
I want my F/F writing read. Period. If a menage scene or two will get it read I’m closer than I was yesterday to selling a full F/F manuscript. Yeah, yeah, I know…there are lesbian publisher’s out there. But they won’t even consider looking at PornStar because my heroine is Bisexual and does it with the hunky ex…

There’s my rant for the day…please support Lesbian and Female Bisexual Fiction by buying!
Buy lots!
Prove there is a market.

*Want to thank Calico for allowing me to use this photo I found at Callico’s Gallery earlier today! And BTW I also saw she asked a very interesting question over at Filthy Gorgeous Things, an awesome ezine if you haven’t already checked it out…

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