Not exact matches
The women in S.E.C.R.E.T. carved a path, and support Cassie, and frankly, that's what E.L. James and
other daring
erotica writers have done for me.
My guess is, certain genres (like
erotica) won't mind paying 99cents or even 2.99 for a short read, but
other types of genres won't do so well (business books expect more meat, scifi / fantasy readers expect more story — they might buy a short from a famous
writer, but maybe not a
writer they don't recognize).
Author D.C. McMillen,
erotica writer and author of The Rusty Nail, began a petition through Change.org to tell PayPal to stop what she and many
other writers and readers felt was unjustified censorship.
Writer Beware's Victoria Strauss, on the
other hand, in Thoughts on the Great
Erotica Panic of 2013, wrote — not in response to Abrams specifically but to industry hubbub in general:
My father is William Julius Wilson, a famous academic in the field of urban poverty and race relations; my mother spent most of her young life in a convent then «busted out» to raise a family and started making artists books; my brother is a spiritual speaker and Bitcoin enthusiast; my one half sister is a powerhouse business woman; the
other half sister was a lesbian
erotica writer but transitioned to writing romance novels and is now a conservative and a huge Trump supporter.