First, an unrelated item: Forget to announce a contest winner on Saturday? Who me? Yeah, I forgot. So, here’s the newest winner: Robin Flaig. Robin, email me with your contact info, and I’ll get the book out to you.
Now, the warning part. I walked around 10 bookstores this weekend – don’t ask – and checked out some books other than my own. The new erotica lines are flooding the shelves and “New in Fiction” tables. I looked at covers. Read a bunch of back cover blurbs. The Spice covers seem tame to me next to, say, the Aphrodisia covers. Here’s my question: what’s with the Aphrodisia books having an explicit material label? Specifically, it says: “Warning! This Is A Really Hot Book (Sexually Explicit).” Anyone know?
You’d think Renee Alexis’ cover for He’s All That and Deanna Lee’s Undressing Mercy cover aren’t exactly unclear about what you’ll find inside. Just wondering if this is a marketing gimmick a legal requirement or what.
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It sure sounds like a marketing gimmick.
But you know, Ellora’s Cave and other erotica/erotic romance publishers have NC-17 warnings in their books too.
by May April 24th, 2006 at 7:20 amBut is that warning on the cover? EC’s puts a warning inside the covers—near the copyright—but there’s not actually a warning on the cover other than the Erotic Romance on the spine.
I’d vote for marketing gimmick. Or perhaps it’s something their legal team recommended to them. Sometimes a publisher’s lawyers have strange ideas of what needs to be done.
by Shannon April 24th, 2006 at 12:55 pm