John Ernissee
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Josh Lanyon:
I adore your writing, but I have a rather weird request...can you have those stories with tame sex indicated? I grow tired of the anatomically explicit sex which seems to be de rigueur in M/M books.
Josh Lanyon
Hey there, John. Thank you for the kind words, and I hear you. It seems with the influx of so many readers and writers new to the genre, we must once again go through the tedious IS-IT-M/M-IF-THERE-ISN'T-SEX??? debate (Still the same answer: HELL YES, IT IS STILL M/M--M/M IS DEFINED BY EMOTIONAL CONTENT, NOT EROTIC CONTENT).
Because erotic content is never what my books are about, I'm not inclined to label my work. In fact, I am hugely antagonistic to the very idea of labels, except where underage readers are concerned.
Here's a tip though. My short stories rarely contain sex. Why? Because it would nearly always have to be crowbarred into the story. Also, my earlier works typically contain more erotic content because sex sells and back in the day I was working with publishers who, naturally, wanted to sell as many books as possible.
The Secrets and Scrabble series--which is what I will mostly be working on next year--does not and will not contain erotic content because erotic content is not permitted in a true cozy mystery. Period.
Because erotic content is never what my books are about, I'm not inclined to label my work. In fact, I am hugely antagonistic to the very idea of labels, except where underage readers are concerned.
Here's a tip though. My short stories rarely contain sex. Why? Because it would nearly always have to be crowbarred into the story. Also, my earlier works typically contain more erotic content because sex sells and back in the day I was working with publishers who, naturally, wanted to sell as many books as possible.
The Secrets and Scrabble series--which is what I will mostly be working on next year--does not and will not contain erotic content because erotic content is not permitted in a true cozy mystery. Period.
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Sneezep
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Josh Lanyon:
First of all I have enjoyed your books. While I found the Adrien English series often bittersweet, Kit Holmes has made me laugh out loud several times, and I can't think when the last time I audibly laughed while reading. Thank you for bringing him and JX to life. Do you concurrently write several books at once, or do you concentrate on a single work? Is it difficult to slip back into a given series after a break?
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