Truer Words Ne'er Were Spoken...

[sinanju]

In the comments to  <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/mass_market_genre_surprise.php">this article</a> on the recent explosion of supernatural romance novels, someone by the name of Stephen Couchman made the following observation:

I live in Portland, Oregon and recently overheard two Powell's employees discussing this phenomenon. One was explaining to his new-hire charge that "Supernatural Romance" is the largest growing, hottest selling category in fiction right now, a subgenre he described as "women committing every imaginable act of lust and perversion with vampires, werewolves, demons, Lovecraftian tentacled rape gods, basically anything you can imagine as long as it's not a normal human man." Selah.

Yeah. That.

Comments

[jenk]

That leaves out Kay Hooper's books about psychic FBI agents and wizards, or Iris Johanson's stuff about magic-using "supermen"...

Oh right, they've been writing that stuff since the 80s. So it can't count.