I might have blogged about this already but it’s worth repeating.
M/M is addictive!!
If you’d talked to me a few years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you. (’course, if you’d talked to me at around the same time, I might not have believed that I’d be a published author by now, but that’s another story).
A friend of mine (she’ll figure out who she is and speak up if she likes) just recently wrote her first m/m. She’d read it before and enjoyed it, both my stories as well as others. But she hadn’t seen herself writing it at all. I knew the feeling, having gone through the same thing. But then she tried it with one little story that she sort of got poked into writing <evil chuckle> Well, hell, it was good! And she seems to have enjoyed it. Enough to publish it at any rate. You go, girl!
When I “met” (online) another friend of mine, she was writing a m/m/f story. She explained that it used to be a pure m/f story, but she’d introduced the other guy and kind of liked the direction it was heading. By the time I met her, though, the woman was already getting phased out. Seemed my friend liked the m/m aspect more than the m/f. The final story has the woman in it, but not as a leading role.
Another friend of mine started out writing m/f and ventured into the m/m realm and now doesn’t want to go back. Like kicking and screaming doesn’t want to go back lol
I get emails from readers who tell me that my story–usually one of the Heaven Sent books–was one of the first m/m that they’d read and now they’re hooked on the hot manlove.
Myself? Well, until recently, I’d been saying that I started with m/f and it’s mostly true, but if I look back to Dark Elves I, there is a m/m blowjob and m/m is an accepted part of the raedjour society. It took to book 4 to actually depict more, but the overtones were always there. My first book outside of that realm was Two for One Deal and, well, that certainly had m/m in it, even if I threw a woman into the mix. Believe it or not, the story started out with just Michael but then I met Rudy and I couldn’t very well leave him out after that <pets my adorable wolf>. Then the next book outside of either series was Snagged so, yeah, by that time I was (sorry, have to do it) snagged on m/m.
Mildly amusing aside here… My current story is called One For The Team. It’s an idea that I actually started and wrote 2/3 of before Dark Elves I. I’ve decided to polish it off and have already signed to contract to publish it with Loose Id. It’s about a woman and her five best friends. Yeah, I’m sure you won’t be shocked to find out that there’s lots of sex involved between friends. But this is the amusing part I referred to. The cps haven’t even read any of it yet and they’re already prodding me to match up the men! They’ve even done the math: 5 men + 1 woman = 2 m/m couples and 1 m/f couple. Well, I’m not sure that’s what’ll happen but they’re being REALLY pushy. LOL
Anyway, my point in all this is that it just seems to be that the hot manlove is quite addictive and I’m not alone in my addiction. All ya’ll must have some of it or you wouldn’t be here under the lovely FWF banner above <points to it> I am not at all saying this is a bad thing–there are far worse things to be obsessed with–but I thought it worth noting on this lovely Saturday afternoon.
Written by Jet Mykles
Jet is a writer of sexual fantasy with a firm belief that all men are at least partially gay, that vampires are just people with a liquid diet and shapeshifters live on every block.
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Maura wrote,
Hmmmmmmmmmm - I’ll freely admit to being the friend who got poked into writing my first male/male story. Maybe it’s because I’m character based that I loved it? I dunno. But it spawned a second.
And a third
And a fourth…..
I’m sunk!
But, you know, JET and ANNE are Evil Temptresses!!!
(Okay, what do I need to do to join this blog - might as well give in now….)
Link | January 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
zadia wrote,
I stumbled into the m/m genre. It was a love story with a m/f/m theme. But I found myself looking forward to the next m/m scene. Now, it is my favorite genre, even though I love a good m/f/m storyline. For example, your leashed series and dark elve series.
Link | January 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Lidyah wrote,
M/M stories are the best.
It was Queer as Folk UK that sealed the deal for me (at 15) for me to fall for the manlove. Never want to go back, takes a lot for me to buy a m/f book nowadays.
Link | January 19th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
JL Langley wrote,
Hey now, I haven’t actually kicked anything. Okay fine, but the desk and computer chair don’t count they aren’t people.
Link | January 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Jet Mykles wrote,
Maura: recognized yourself, did you? You’re on #4 now? Oh yeah, you’re sunk :)
Zadia: Thank you! I actually like m/m/f quite a bit, but I’d count that as part of the m/m addiction
Lidyah: y’know, I’ve still never seen Queer as Folk I keep meaning to.
JL: O_O pffft! I’m quite sure I heard kicking
Link | January 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Maura wrote,
Methinks Jet is entirely TOO SMUG
Link | January 20th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Barb wrote,
I don’t know about M/M being addictive, but I do know that a good Jet Mykles story is (lol)! Keep writing the good stuff.
Link | January 20th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Jet Mykles wrote,
Maura:
Barb: Thank you!
Link | January 20th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Tina wrote,
Gotta say it, your stories got me hooked! And it’s not just the M/M, it’s good writing. Thanks!
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 6:42 am
Kimberly Gardner wrote,
I was the friend with the threesome … Wait, I mean, I was the friend writing the threesome. In fact I wrote the story all the way through battling the draw of the manlove the entire time. Those boys just couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
So I gave in, cut a third of the original story and reduced the role of the female to a secondary character and let the guys have their way.
Now it’s all I want to write. *g*
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 7:44 am
Jet Mykles wrote,
Tina, thank you! I love hearing that I infected… uh, “introduced” another person to the wonders of m/m :D
Kimber is also the one who is fond of the phrase “once you go gay, you never stray” :)
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 9:41 am
zadia wrote,
Jet introduced me to the http://www.renderotica.com/ website. I saw this great picture that has led me to write a short story around it. This will never see the light of day. But I love my little story that I am writing. I love all you guys.
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Jet Mykles wrote,
zadia, you wrote a story? Go you! That’s the first step :)
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Katrina Strauss wrote,
Similar experience here. Before I discovered yaoi, I had only enjoyed reading the occasional m/m piece, while I had no intention of ever writing one since other authors were already doing so well at it. Now, in less than one year’s time, I find I can’t read or write het! It really is just so much more fun playing with the boys…and watching them play with each other! >:)
Link | January 25th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Jet Mykles wrote,
Amen, Katrina! :)
Link | January 25th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
ComputErotika » Addictive Manlove wrote,
[…] Posted about this over at Fiction with Friction […]
Link | January 27th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Cameron Dane wrote,
I have to say, I love the men, too. Like some other writers in this genre, I wrote Falling before I knew it would have an audience or that anyone would want to read a romance about two men getting together and falling in love. (not to mention having all of that hot sex) Then I started looking at e publishers and squealed with happiness that there were so many great stories out there already for me to read, and that maybe I could find a home for my story as well. I do still write the occasional m/f to mix it up, but I’ve gotta say that I do so look forward to getting back to my men.
Link | February 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 am