Veteran erotic fiction writer Susie Bright has a pleasingly different interview with Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore about their new erotic fairytale odyssey, Lost Girls. Melinda is an old friend so it makes for a nice personal touch.

It's also worth reading Susie's Publisher Weekly interview about the explosion of erotic fiction and the death of the bookshop:

"Do you know how many times I've walked into a book-signing and the manager greets me with: "Thank god you're here!—the only thing we're selling nowadays are sex and business books."

My heart sinks. It may sound good for "sex authors" at first glance, but it's more like an "end times" mantra. It's the last thing the bookseller says before they close their doors.

We are in a bookshop crisis of mind-boggling proportions. I have a list of every bookstore that I have appeared at or done a special promotion for since 1984.

Do you know how many of those stores have closed since I started my list?

NINETY PERCENT.

Book biz observers understand this, but they don't always draw the line between our business imploding and the slender survival thread of erotica."

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Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 8/31/2006 05:23:12 AM