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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 7, 2019 6:21:22 GMT -5
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Post by Celaena on Nov 11, 2019 14:39:36 GMT -5
Pet peeve time. I like books with dudes who limp. It seriously annoys me when I wait forever for a series book where the Hero was much more disabled by whatever injury he has when he was a secondary character and he's far LESS affected as a main character. Walks better,better balance, etc. Even when the injury had had plenty of time to heal BEFORE his appearance in his own book. No reason for the improvement, in fact, as anyone who's dealt with almost any kind of chronic condition can tell you, it's more likely to have gotten worse than better-particularly in a historical setting. The book I'm referring to is London's Late Night Scandal by Anabelle Bryant. Have you read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo? Main character has a limp that is not downplayed!
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Post by queenkala on Nov 11, 2019 15:38:44 GMT -5
Pet peeve time. I like books with dudes who limp. It seriously annoys me when I wait forever for a series book where the Hero was much more disabled by whatever injury he has when he was a secondary character and he's far LESS affected as a main character. Walks better,better balance, etc. Even when the injury had had plenty of time to heal BEFORE his appearance in his own book. No reason for the improvement, in fact, as anyone who's dealt with almost any kind of chronic condition can tell you, it's more likely to have gotten worse than better-particularly in a historical setting. The book I'm referring to is London's Late Night Scandal by Anabelle Bryant. Have you read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo? Main character has a limp that is not downplayed! And thank you very much!! This one is on my list now too!
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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 12, 2019 5:57:48 GMT -5
Pet peeve time. I like books with dudes who limp. It seriously annoys me when I wait forever for a series book where the Hero was much more disabled by whatever injury he has when he was a secondary character and he's far LESS affected as a main character. Walks better,better balance, etc. Even when the injury had had plenty of time to heal BEFORE his appearance in his own book. No reason for the improvement, in fact, as anyone who's dealt with almost any kind of chronic condition can tell you, it's more likely to have gotten worse than better-particularly in a historical setting. The book I'm referring to is London's Late Night Scandal by Anabelle Bryant. Have you read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo? Main character has a limp that is not downplayed! I hear it’s going to be a series on Netflix also. 😊
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 19:15:23 GMT -5
This E.M. Lindsey has a lot of books published...wow...are her books all with disabled characters or only some? Is she a dev I wonder?
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Post by devogirl on Nov 13, 2019 20:21:20 GMT -5
I haven't read EM Lindsey's books yet. But if you read the link blueskye posted above, she says that it's because her parents are both PWDs. That doesn't mean she isn't a dev, but I didn't get a dev vibe from her essay. Also the reviews of her books are pretty rough; a lot of readers think she's not as disability positive as she claims. But I will read at least one or two of her books to see for myself.
BTW I am finally reading Wheels of Steel by Pepper Pace, which is not a new book, and has been discussed here many times. I'm sure many of you have read it long ago. I'm enjoying it but even though she is very detailed and realistic in the way she describes CP, it feels very different to me from how a dev would describe the same things.
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Nov 13, 2019 22:44:34 GMT -5
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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 13, 2019 22:44:34 GMT -5
This E.M. Lindsey has a lot of books published...wow...are her books all with disabled characters or only some? Is she a dev I wonder? No, not all her books have disability in them. She writes pretty sexy bedroom scenes but not sure written as a dev would. Iron and works series has guy in wheelchair, deaf guy, blind guy and several with prosthetic limbs. Lol. Not all in same book. I really enjoyed this series.
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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 13, 2019 22:51:56 GMT -5
I haven't read EM Lindsey's books yet. But if you read the link blueskye posted above, she says that it's because her parents are both PWDs. That doesn't mean she isn't a dev, but I didn't get a dev vibe from her essay. Also the reviews of her books are pretty rough; a lot of readers think she's not as disability positive as she claims. But I will read at least one or two of her books to see for myself. BTW I am finally reading Wheels of Steel by Pepper Pace, which is not a new book, and has been discussed here many times. I'm sure many of you have read it long ago. I'm enjoying it but even though she is very detailed and realistic in the way she describes CP, it feels very different to me from how a dev would describe the same things. This brings up a different question, a little off subject. As a dev, how do you rein your thoughts to paper for general public viewing and could this be something e.m. Lindsey maybe does and others. I know that @ Annabelle has mentioned going more “ mainstream”. Glad for our pro boards site.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 23:45:59 GMT -5
That is an interesting question blueskye101 probably would be a good thread on its own... I am thinking about myself, I write romance and it's literally always dev and disability related, very obviously written by a dev because I'm also not hiding that fact in my stories. I also don't want to hide it. I don't know how it would be possible to be a dev and write romance including disability without devness or a connection to it. I guess it's possible but I don't see myself being able to do that. I feel it would not be me writing from the heart. I have written just about sex between two people mostly pertaining to fetishes and kink and I know the dev doesn't come to me then at all. It's literally only about sexual connections and pretty straight forward. I don't think I could write Vanilla romance or sex scenes at all, it's either dev romance or kinky/fetish "romance".
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Post by annabelle on Nov 14, 2019 16:14:57 GMT -5
blueskye101 I think that’s a great question. I definitely write different now that I’m publishing. For example, I tone down certain things that I know are not attractive to the general public. Like in my book, The Best Man, there was a whole scene where the guy hurts his shoulder and needs his mom to help him with his bowel program, and I cut that entirely. My beta reader, who is not a dev, said it was a turn off. I have to cut a lot of those little details that I might find sexy, but I recognize is a turn off to most women. I don’t want to hijack this thread with a more detailed explanation, but basically my goal is to make men with disabilities extremely sexy to the general population—not just devs.
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Post by queenkala on Nov 14, 2019 16:23:58 GMT -5
blueskye101 I think that’s a great question. I definitely write different now that I’m publishing. For example, I tone down certain things that I know are not attractive to the general public. Like in my book, The Best Man, there was a whole scene where the guy hurts his shoulder and needs his mom to help him with his bowel program, and I cut that entirely. My beta reader, who is not a dev, said it was a turn off. I have to cut a lot of those little details that I might find sexy, but I recognize is a turn off to most women. I don’t want to hijack this thread with a more detailed explanation, but basically my goal is to make men with disabilities extremely sexy to the general population—not just devs. That's really interesting Annabelle, thanks for sharing. It would be interesting, but would you consider offering two versions of your books? One for devs and one for non-devs? Just because well, The Best Man, is probably one of my favourite books of yours, and man i totally would have loved that scene you cut!
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Post by raindrop on Nov 14, 2019 16:31:06 GMT -5
I am not into m/m books, I wish I was, seems like I might like her books. Do you know of any that are not m/m?
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Post by mwin on Nov 14, 2019 16:57:58 GMT -5
blueskye101 I think that’s a great question. I definitely write different now that I’m publishing. For example, I tone down certain things that I know are not attractive to the general public. Like in my book, The Best Man, there was a whole scene where the guy hurts his shoulder and needs his mom to help him with his bowel program, and I cut that entirely. My beta reader, who is not a dev, said it was a turn off. I have to cut a lot of those little details that I might find sexy, but I recognize is a turn off to most women. I don’t want to hijack this thread with a more detailed explanation, but basically my goal is to make men with disabilities extremely sexy to the general population—not just devs. That's really interesting Annabelle, thanks for sharing. It would be interesting, but would you consider offering two versions of your books? One for devs and one for non-devs? Just because well, The Best Man, is probably one of my favourite books of yours, and man i totally would have loved that scene you cut! Me too!!! That scene sounds potentially amazing. 🙈 xx
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Post by annabelle on Nov 14, 2019 17:08:31 GMT -5
blueskye101 I think that’s a great question. I definitely write different now that I’m publishing. For example, I tone down certain things that I know are not attractive to the general public. Like in my book, The Best Man, there was a whole scene where the guy hurts his shoulder and needs his mom to help him with his bowel program, and I cut that entirely. My beta reader, who is not a dev, said it was a turn off. I have to cut a lot of those little details that I might find sexy, but I recognize is a turn off to most women. I don’t want to hijack this thread with a more detailed explanation, but basically my goal is to make men with disabilities extremely sexy to the general population—not just devs. That's really interesting Annabelle, thanks for sharing. It would be interesting, but would you consider offering two versions of your books? One for devs and one for non-devs? Just because well, The Best Man, is probably one of my favourite books of yours, and man i totally would have loved that scene you cut! That was years ago... I’m fairly sure the scene is long gone! But maybe I can recreate it and post it to the blog next month. To be totally honest, I am pretty “into” scenes like that, and it’s something I’ve had to sacrifice when I started writing more mainstream stuff. But I don’t get the sense that many devs are into it? There was some group Skype chat I was in a while back where people were saying they weren’t into that stuff, so I clammed up, and kind of filed it away as something not to do.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 19:10:52 GMT -5
I don’t want to hijack this thread with a more detailed explanation, but basically my goal is to make men with disabilities extremely sexy to the general population—not just devs. Don't make them too extremely sexy that all non devs are turning dev and devs will have too much competition in snatching up a sexy PWD
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