bradley_stoke
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- Feb 28, 2001
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I would like to thank all those who voted for "Innocence Lost" as best novel in the recent End of Year poll. To have got even one vote would have been gratifying. To get 147 is almost overwhelming.
I knew it was a risk when I submitted the novel to Literotica. After all, it is a novel which tries to claim new territory for the genre of erotic literature, and I knew that it was unlikely to be to everyone’s taste. But that was never my intention, and I accept the criticism it has received from those who dislike what it attempts to do and how it goes about it.
It is a novel which combines social satire with erotica, in an episodic structure with complex characterisation, where there are many short sex scenes, rather than a few long ones. This is not necessarily what a reader wants when they read erotic literature.
However, I have been flattered by the many e-mails of praise I received, including from Laurel, so clearly there is a large minority of readers who appreciate a different approach to erotica to that which most writers provide. This is not to detract from the quality of these writers’ work, who pursue their own muses in their own way.
Thank you again for all your votes, and thank you in particular to Laurel and Manu for taking the risk in permitting me to present my fiction.
I knew it was a risk when I submitted the novel to Literotica. After all, it is a novel which tries to claim new territory for the genre of erotic literature, and I knew that it was unlikely to be to everyone’s taste. But that was never my intention, and I accept the criticism it has received from those who dislike what it attempts to do and how it goes about it.
It is a novel which combines social satire with erotica, in an episodic structure with complex characterisation, where there are many short sex scenes, rather than a few long ones. This is not necessarily what a reader wants when they read erotic literature.
However, I have been flattered by the many e-mails of praise I received, including from Laurel, so clearly there is a large minority of readers who appreciate a different approach to erotica to that which most writers provide. This is not to detract from the quality of these writers’ work, who pursue their own muses in their own way.
Thank you again for all your votes, and thank you in particular to Laurel and Manu for taking the risk in permitting me to present my fiction.
