Second: as others have noted downstream, there's a genre shift involved here, and that has additional "branding" implications.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that LKH's sales popularized and defined erotic paranormal as a mainstream powerhouse. When she began her books, there were entire chapters of foreplay, for want of a better word, so there was always a high sex content; even within the first five volumes, if you read them, this was evident. Her sales numbers climbed, she was moved from Ace to Jove, and shortly after she hit the NYT gunning, there were a lot of LKH-alikes.
So I think in this specific case it's not entirely fair to accuse her of genre-drift; I think, as I said, she was the Terry Brooks of selling that sub-genre of paranormal.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:55 am (UTC)I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that LKH's sales popularized and defined erotic paranormal as a mainstream powerhouse. When she began her books, there were entire chapters of foreplay, for want of a better word, so there was always a high sex content; even within the first five volumes, if you read them, this was evident. Her sales numbers climbed, she was moved from Ace to Jove, and shortly after she hit the NYT gunning, there were a lot of LKH-alikes.
So I think in this specific case it's not entirely fair to accuse her of genre-drift; I think, as I said, she was the Terry Brooks of selling that sub-genre of paranormal.