The Varied Reactions of Friends, Family and Co-Workers

It’s been an interesting couple of months to watch the reactions of my friends, family and co-workers to my foray into writing male/male romance.

While everyone was blase about my writing erotic romance, some were more fascinated than others but they were all accepting and encouraging.

When I announced I was writing male/male, the reactions ran the gamut of:

• Mr. Maura looked at me for a moment and then said “I hope you don’t expect me to podcast THAT for you. Or do any research.”
• My mother just shrugged and said she still wants free copies.
• I’m not sure Mr. Maura has told his side of the family yet at all.
• My twenty year old son was appalled.
• Some of my co-workers just laughed nervously. Others just shook their heads.

The truly hilarious thing is the number of my male co-workers that have since approached me privately and asked me to please promise that I will never use them in one of my male/male romances. Apparently the m/f ones are okay, but not the others.

Then a few days ago a gay co-worker wanted to know if I would use his and his boyfriend’s names and they’d talk it up for me :) Bragging rights? It cracked me up.

But I found a great way to make some of them really nervous… When they ask me to promise that I won’t ever use them in a male/male romance, I smile and tell them:

“It may be far too late for me to make that promise.”

They run scared every time!

Written by Maura Anderson

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