"Write what you know," they say, and Backdoor Teen Mom and New York Times bestselling author Farrah Abraham apparently takes them very seriously. She's working on an erotic romance trilogy called—wait for it—Celebrity Sex Tape.
It's a bit of a joke that straight guys are into "hot girl-on-girl action," but what's new is the burgeoning industry of "M/M romances," erotic novels about gay men written by and for straight women. What's that about?
That's Mr. Romance 2009 doing the cover-shoot for romance novel The Lord of Devil Isle (which will eventually probably look something like this). Don't ask how we found this. But there's a whole slideshow and it's disturbing, but fascinating.
Those romance novels are getting naughtier and naughtier! "Explicit sex scenes... can run to six or seven pages, complete with whipped cream, handcuffs and robust, four-letter Anglo-Saxon words." Jane Austen probably wouldn't make the cut for romance-novel writing these days: she'd have to "ramp up the sex a bit." […
This morning on the R train, a woman got off at the City Hall stop. She was middle-aged and heavyset, wearing a light green polyester shirt tucked into snug pinstriped pants. We imagined her sitting down at her desk in one of those anonymous government offices and answering the phones, as she's done day after day for…
