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Are labels good?\u00a0 Bad?<\/p>\n

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Well, IMO, they are kind of necessary.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a food allergy.\u00a0 I read ingredients on food labels to make sure I don’t end up eating something I shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

I don’t like messing with dry cleaning, so I check clothing tags to make sure it’s not labeled as DRY CLEAN ONLY.<\/p>\n

I don’t really care for straight erotica, so if I see something tagged as straight erotica, I’m not very likely to read it.\u00a0 Nothing against straight erotica, it just doesn’t work for me, so I like it when erotica books are labeled as such.<\/p>\n

Likewise, if I read a book labeled erotic romance, and it’s more straight erotica (ie: the plot is more on a sexual exploration, there is no HEA at the end, etc) I’m going to be irritated.\u00a0 I wanted a romance, I wasn’t given one, this is a problem.<\/p>\n

I don’t much like westerns, so if I buy a book that has a romantic-suspense looking cover, blurb, etc and once I get into the book, I discover it’s actually a western, I’m going to be irritated.<\/p>\n

I tend to write fairly steamy material, so if\u00a0 a reader who doesn’t like explicit language picks up one of my books, I want my books labeled as erotic romance\/steamy\/whatever, so people know what they are buying.<\/p>\n

People like to know what they are getting.\u00a0 Especially when they shell out money.<\/p>\n

Now I can understand why labels bug people.\u00a0 I don’t want to be known just for paranormal romance.\u00a0 Or just erotic romance.\u00a0 That’s too confining and I get bored, and I don’t want readers thinking everything I turn out is paranormal.\u00a0 One-those that don’t like paranormal may not pick my contemp stuff up, thinking it’s paranormal.\u00a0 Two-I don’t want somebody who prefers paranormal picking up a contemp and being disappointed.<\/p>\n

Labels aren’t a bad thing.\u00a0 Constrictive labels can be.<\/p>\n

But the labels are there for a reason.\u00a0 People aren’t going to be as inclined to buy your books in the future if they were looking for a X-subgenre of romance, bought a book that seemed to fit, and when they get into it, it’s actual Y-subgenre of romance.\u00a0 People like to know what they are buying.\u00a0 That’s why we have labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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