It takes seconds to see what books sell the most reliably. These are the titles that fill the shelves at your local supermarket and department store - the titles that are going to come off the shelves as quickly as possible because they have a wide general audience. Just glance at those
shelves and you'll see a small section devoted to "Best-sellers", a small section for the westerns and science fiction, and at least twice the size of both those sections combined is the one proudly displaying romantic fiction.
The romance genre has come to be so much more than the stereotypical Harlequin. Paranormal/science fiction romance is a fast-growing sub-genre. Of course, we still have access to hundreds of Harlequin titles, but even they have expanded into new lines that offer steamier, racier, and just-plain-hotter romantic fiction.
To break into the erotic romance market, you need to understand what erotic fiction means. From there, it's just a matter of giving your imagination time to run away with your fingers.
Erotic Romance: What It Is
Shalla DeGuzman, president of the ShalladeGuzman Writer's Group (www.shalladeguzman.com), recently had the opportunity to interview Shara Lanel, an erotic romance writer quickly growing in popularity. Her most recent release was Primitive Passion, but there's less than a month left before her latest book - The Lion's Den - hits the shelves, followed immediately by Gemini: Directing Claire.
In other words, Shara has some experience with the field of erotic romance and her thoughts are a great start in defining what erotic romance is. How does she define it?
"Most of all, it's great romance stories with well-developed heroes and heroines that you can just fall in love with. On top of that, erotic romance takes the heat level up a notch, or several notches depending on the story. The love scenes are longer and more explicit. Euphemisms are not used, when the real word will work nicely. And the characters' sexuality is a more integral part of the story premise."
The romance genre has come to be so much more than the stereotypical Harlequin. Paranormal/science fiction romance is a fast-growing sub-genre. Of course, we still have access to hundreds of Harlequin titles, but even they have expanded into new lines that offer steamier, racier, and just-plain-hotter romantic fiction.
To break into the erotic romance market, you need to understand what erotic fiction means. From there, it's just a matter of giving your imagination time to run away with your fingers.
Erotic Romance: What It Is
Shalla DeGuzman, president of the ShalladeGuzman Writer's Group (www.shalladeguzman.com), recently had the opportunity to interview Shara Lanel, an erotic romance writer quickly growing in popularity. Her most recent release was Primitive Passion, but there's less than a month left before her latest book - The Lion's Den - hits the shelves, followed immediately by Gemini: Directing Claire.
In other words, Shara has some experience with the field of erotic romance and her thoughts are a great start in defining what erotic romance is. How does she define it?
"Most of all, it's great romance stories with well-developed heroes and heroines that you can just fall in love with. On top of that, erotic romance takes the heat level up a notch, or several notches depending on the story. The love scenes are longer and more explicit. Euphemisms are not used, when the real word will work nicely. And the characters' sexuality is a more integral part of the story premise."
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