10:31 am - 03/15/2012
Not since women were stealing their daughter's Twilight books for midnight reading binges, has a series of novels so steamed up the mommy set. The New York Post reports that the X-rated "Fifty Shades" trilogy, by E.L. James, British television executive and mom of two, has already sold 250,000 copies and scored James the number one spot on the NY Times bestseller list.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," the first installment, has become know as "The Book" around school pick ups on New York City's Upper East Side. "I couldn't put it down," says NYC mom Michele Yogel, 33, "I'd be sitting on the couch at 7 a.m. with my two kids while they're watching cartoons and drinking milk and I'd be reading it on the Kindle app on my phone."
While Stephanie Meyer's books were mainly about the thrill of the chase and the anticipation of the kill, James's series is more of a full frontal assault. Unabashedly not YA, these books are part of a genre called BDSM (or "bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism") fiction. In the first novel, the kinky anti-hero, billionaire Christian Grey, turns his good girl paramour Anastasia Steele into a submissive sex slave. While the next two volumes chronicle their deepening love, the Post reports that "flip to a random page…point to a line and you're basically guaranteed to land on a graphic, adjective-laden sex scene…."
Reportedly, first-time author James was herself a Twilight fan when she stumbled on BDSM fiction and "found it really hot." She's not the only one. "Kids have never seen their mothers reading so much," says 42-year-old Allysa Goldman. Goldman, Yogel, and other bibliophiles agree that its adding spark back to "everyone's marriage."
And dads are getting in on the act as well. "That's going to be the newest thing in real estate," laughed a NYC bigwig who wanted to remain anonymous, "a media room and a 'red room of pain'."
Two weeks ago a paperback copy of Fifty Shades of Grey was listed on Amazon.com for an astounding $999.99. Now, Vintage has picked up the rights for a reported 7-figure sum. The initial combined print run for the three books will be 750,000 copies. The first will be available on April 3, 2012.
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Risque Trilogy a Hit with the Playground Posse
Not since women were stealing their daughter's Twilight books for midnight reading binges, has a series of novels so steamed up the mommy set. The New York Post reports that the X-rated "Fifty Shades" trilogy, by E.L. James, British television executive and mom of two, has already sold 250,000 copies and scored James the number one spot on the NY Times bestseller list.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," the first installment, has become know as "The Book" around school pick ups on New York City's Upper East Side. "I couldn't put it down," says NYC mom Michele Yogel, 33, "I'd be sitting on the couch at 7 a.m. with my two kids while they're watching cartoons and drinking milk and I'd be reading it on the Kindle app on my phone."
While Stephanie Meyer's books were mainly about the thrill of the chase and the anticipation of the kill, James's series is more of a full frontal assault. Unabashedly not YA, these books are part of a genre called BDSM (or "bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism") fiction. In the first novel, the kinky anti-hero, billionaire Christian Grey, turns his good girl paramour Anastasia Steele into a submissive sex slave. While the next two volumes chronicle their deepening love, the Post reports that "flip to a random page…point to a line and you're basically guaranteed to land on a graphic, adjective-laden sex scene…."
Reportedly, first-time author James was herself a Twilight fan when she stumbled on BDSM fiction and "found it really hot." She's not the only one. "Kids have never seen their mothers reading so much," says 42-year-old Allysa Goldman. Goldman, Yogel, and other bibliophiles agree that its adding spark back to "everyone's marriage."
And dads are getting in on the act as well. "That's going to be the newest thing in real estate," laughed a NYC bigwig who wanted to remain anonymous, "a media room and a 'red room of pain'."
Two weeks ago a paperback copy of Fifty Shades of Grey was listed on Amazon.com for an astounding $999.99. Now, Vintage has picked up the rights for a reported 7-figure sum. The initial combined print run for the three books will be 750,000 copies. The first will be available on April 3, 2012.
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2. use an entire fandom as your guinea pics
3. then tell them to fuck off
4. ?
5. profit
If I decided to turn a fic into a story, would I have to take the fic all down?
These people that are turning their fics into books all seem to be AUs with similar characters but nothing near the story line of the source material. But I haven't actually read any of them so I could be wrong on that.
Edited at 2012-03-15 04:59 pm (UTC)
What is everyone reading rn? I'm almost finished re-reading The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen.
Edited at 2012-03-15 07:16 pm (UTC)
lol editing because i wrote "writing" instead of "reading" - this is what happens when you browse ontd while writing, haha.
Edited at 2012-03-15 04:51 pm (UTC)
/waits for backlash
From http://betterbooktitles.com/ lol
Here it is.
tbh i see no problem with erotic fiction being a large market
“Err... yesterday,” I mumble in my highly aroused state.
“Good.” He releases me and turns me around.
“Hold on to the sink,” he orders and pulls my hips back again, like he did in the playroom, so I’m bending down.
He reaches between my legs and pulls on the blue string… what! And… a gently pulls my tampon out and tosses it into the nearby toilet. Holy fuck. Sweet mother of all… Jeez. And then he’s inside me… ah! Skin against skin… moving slowly at first… easily, testing me, pushing me… oh my. I grip on to the sink, panting, forcing myself back on him, feeling him inside me. Oh the sweet agony… his hands clasp my hips. He sets a punishing rhythm – in, out, and he reaches around and finds my clitoris, massaging me… oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken.
“That’s right, baby,” he rasps as he grinds into me, angling his hips, and it’s enough to send me flying, flying high.
Whoa… and I come, loudly, gripping for dear life onto the sink as I spiral down through my orgasm, everything spinning and clenching at once. He follows, clasping me tightly, his front on my back as he climaxes and calls my name like it’s a litany or a prayer.
i'll add it to my guilty pleasure book folder
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bitch is probs too vanilla to write a proper bdsm sex scene
(and fwiw, sex in a well-written fanfic >>> sex in mass-market romances/erotica.)
that's disappointing
i was hoping it was like american psycho type shocking
There's a reason for that.
I wish the media would understand that.
(Also, apparently, erotica just began with this crap.)
lol what.
i saw someone reading this on the subway this morning and was curious what it was about. now that i sort of know, ummmmmm.
he like kinda hits her with his belt once at the end and she's like OOOWWW I QUIT and they break up.
They get immediately back together in the 2nd book but there is barely any BDSM. Not that much sex either.
Vintage always have the prettiest covers and lovely production, and I can't believe some bloody fanfic gets it!
Otherwise, they leave a bad taste in my mouth.