Looking For A Valentine’s Gift With A Literary Touch? Coliloquy Is Offering Personalized Erotica
Summary
For the Val-Entwined promotion, author Lissa Trevor has created a story template that readers can personalize with the details of their relationship, like the name and gender of their significant others, their most sensitive body parts and so on. To my mind, at least, the content definitely lived up to her promise of dirtiness — I like to think that I’m reasonably hard to shock , but when Rutherford started reading passages out loud, I’m pretty sure I turned a little red. I also laughed a lot, which I’d argue is a natural reaction to hearing the details of the torrid sex that you’re going to have with the entrepreneur sitting next to you. But if you and your significant other are pretty, uh, comfortable with each other (or if you’ve got a friend with a sense of humor), then this could be the perfect gift. Two of its big genres, erotica and young adult fiction, are potentially an uncomfortable fit for a single publisher, and Rutherford acknowledged, “If we had raised a ton of money, we probably would have had different imprints and different voices for each of them.” Entwined seems like the first step in that direction, and the company may be getting more serious about it this year, especially since it plans to launch three more genres.