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[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It was my understanding that romance, as an umbrella, was the best seller of books.

The reason "just write smut" was the advice given to struggling authors was because the demand was there to make it a best selling genre, but people didn't typically write it. Now it's fairly saturated so the advice is less relevant.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Romantasy has been thriving in recent years but you have to market yourself to stand out. It's also been weird in that increasingly self publishing has been a better deal for authors of the genre.

Personally I'd love to get into reading it but I hear there isn't much good f/f content in the genre.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 12 hours ago

The last series I finished was "Kingdom of immortal lovers" by Ruby Roe. Which is some f/f BDSM vampire smut.

I think Ruby Roe is mainly f/f, but the above was more smut than fantasy. That said, I don't go out of my way to read romance, so I really wouldn't know.

I can't recommend, or not recommend the series though, it wasn't written for me. Just here to say Ruby exists for f/f fantasy smut.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

Kurt Vonnegut said there’s a lot of easy money in sci-fi, but no respect, i tell ya