Why I didn’t write the sex scene (spoiler-free)
So. This was sort of immediately inspired by a random tweet about how not all M/M is erotica. But it’s something that I’ve been facing ever since I first started trying to get The Stars May Rise and Fall published, and it’s something that authors of queer fiction have been facing for even longer: this weird assumption that just because a book is M/M (or F/F), it must be sexually explicit. My book is not. That’s not a spoiler, as far as I’m concerned—it’s fade to black, please use that as you wish to help you decide whether you’d like to read it or not. I know that fade to black is a negative for some readers and a positive for others. And that others read all heat levels and don’t really care. And to honest, the choice to do that—to fade to black, rather than writing the sex scene—was one of the ones I agonized the most over. But in the end, I think it was the best choice for THIS particular book. And here’s why. So first, the points ...