damn !
</gratuitous eroticism>
Not only was it 400 pages too long to be a breakthrough bestseller, it went way into explicit 3 way sex etc with the hero, his stripper girlfriend, and her stripper friend. I kid you not.
This is NOT the way to get a conservative POV novel to be passed by word of mouth from friend to friend. I suspect that many readers closed the book after the first jolly BJ.
My novel intertwines a love story, but not that kind! I don't want conservatives or women readers to be turned off by it, as I suspect many were by UC's superfluous sex scenes.