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Can anyone tell me what a publisher thinks is the difference between a book being a great story with erotic parts and it being classified as erotica? Is it the language used? Is it the amount of sex scenes?

I call out to the fans of Laurell K Hamilton as well - she started with blood, action, adventure and innuendo and then slowly slipped into sex being the main focus (a little too much the focus in some of them)- and yet her books are not called erotica.

I've had it explained to me that a book with erotic scenes still has a great story and the scenes may lend to the plot, but don't become the plot - while an eroctica story has a looser tie to a plot - the sex IS the story. Does that ring true with a lot of you?

I'm new and plan on posting my some of the chapters of my book as erotica to ensure eyes under 18 don't read it and to not offend anyone with the sometimes graphic detail - but am genuinely curious what publishers will think (guidelines that anyone knows of) and posed my question here and in other forums - to get the most responses.

Thank you for your time,

C.J. Ellisson
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