(Reposted from TRS Spookapalooza)
ER is Erotic Romance. People who know me, know that I do not do Romance. I do love stories, which is actually not the same thing. As well, I think some people are parsing the definition a bit too fine when it comes to separating Erotic Romance from porn. The former being somehow acceptable Sexually Explicit writing, while the latter is not. In any case, I've had my say on this elsewhere (see below).
EH is Erotic Horror. A lot of people associate this sub-genre of speculative fiction with - as a writer of my acquaintance has said - "sex gone bad". But to me EH is just a scary story with hot sex, all of it good. With some irreverence (when have you ever heard irreverence from me?) I call it "scary porn", at least the way I write it.
To be sure, the scary part is associated with the "Yuck" factor that someone pointed out in commentary to one of my excerpts (I think it was In the Belly of the Night #3). Well, that's what I write, so no apologies. On the other hand, the point of the scary stuff is not to gross out the reader, but to add to the tension and suspense, because fear and sex actually go together very well.
In any case, my stories always have good old fashioned heroes and heroines, and the good guys always win, vanquishing - or at least escaping from - the monster(s). Yes, there is dismemberment, shredding and chomping. But really, I just write love stories that happen to have inhuman antagonists who occasionally eat people.
By the way, Garou 1: Black Widow is a little more Romance and a little less slavering fangs in the dark, for what it's worth.
JC Alpha Male, in all his irreverent glory
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