5 Crucial Mistakes Erotic Romance Novels Make

Don’t make the same mistakes they did!

Stumped on my NaNoWriMo, and having a quiet week to rest, I decided to tear into my potential competition. I used to be an avid reader of free and cheap romance and erotic lit through Apple, Amazon, and online websites. I wondered if the market had changed. What are people writing? What sells? And are authors still lazily inserting themselves into history? (Unsurprisingly yes).

In fairness of judging accuracy, I should say I examined ten ‘average length’ books of a mix of contemporary, paranormal, and historical sub-genres. It’s a small sample size, but the mistakes recurred to the point where I could say this is what distinguishes a great book from a generic one. I feel it is important to say that all these books were rated no lower than four and a half-stars online, and were very popular. I’ve heard about paid reviews as a significant scandal, but it does make me wonder when I found some to be unworthy of that judgement. In the name of politeness, I won’t name names, although I did leave private reviews as I think constructive criticism is important. I hope someone would tell me (please tell me). These are all mistakes I’m almost 95% sure I’ve made at some point.