I’d guess MF because if there’s a hot man and it’s not specifically labelled MM it’s MF. Just like when a cover client gives you a laundry list of things they want the cover model to be wearing or doing, but never mention skin colour or ethnicity, you know their character is white.
It also seems, at least based on the covers posted here, that the gay romances are far less fixated on whether or not one of the parties is a billionaire.
Well, he does look pretty metro at the very least, so I wouldn’t be 100% sure of that. Someone has indeed been doing the predictable Fifty Shades of Gay takeoffs on E.L. James’ execrable novels—in fact, several someones have had a go at doing that—and the results were predictably trite. As others have noted here, however, straight women and homosexuals don’t seem to have any complete equivalent to the “impossibly sexy because he’s a billionaire who actually wants to marry a gold digger” character.
Your description of the picky client who mentions all the specific things he (or she) wants a character to be wearing or doing without specifying race and ethnicity does suggest an entertaining little social experiment to try, however: what would happen if you presented said client a cover showing a black model wearing and doing those very things?
You: “Here ya go, Ms. James.”
Ms. James: “Hmmm… a black billionaire? [Thinks carefully for a moment.] Well, he is wearing a cowboy hat and throwing stacks of C-notes in people’s faces… Eh, close enough.”
And this one is right up there with Mountain men. Anybody got ANY idea what “flavor” this is? MM? MF? something else? Female harem? (sigh).
I’d guess MF because if there’s a hot man and it’s not specifically labelled MM it’s MF. Just like when a cover client gives you a laundry list of things they want the cover model to be wearing or doing, but never mention skin colour or ethnicity, you know their character is white.
It also seems, at least based on the covers posted here, that the gay romances are far less fixated on whether or not one of the parties is a billionaire.
Well, he does look pretty metro at the very least, so I wouldn’t be 100% sure of that. Someone has indeed been doing the predictable Fifty Shades of Gay takeoffs on E.L. James’ execrable novels—in fact, several someones have had a go at doing that—and the results were predictably trite. As others have noted here, however, straight women and homosexuals don’t seem to have any complete equivalent to the “impossibly sexy because he’s a billionaire who actually wants to marry a gold digger” character.
Your description of the picky client who mentions all the specific things he (or she) wants a character to be wearing or doing without specifying race and ethnicity does suggest an entertaining little social experiment to try, however: what would happen if you presented said client a cover showing a black model wearing and doing those very things?
You: “Here ya go, Ms. James.”
Ms. James: “Hmmm… a black billionaire? [Thinks carefully for a moment.] Well, he is wearing a cowboy hat and throwing stacks of C-notes in people’s faces… Eh, close enough.”
Okay, this:
…is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Thanks for that. Talk about FANTASIES…
what makes you think I haven’t done that experiment, lol
There’s a conspicuous under-representation of billionairesses. We deserve Billionairesse Theresa.
We probably DO deserve that, dammit.
Meh, let’s not kid ourselves. How many men really want Alpha Billionairesses that aren’t 97 years old?