The hardest bit is figuring out how not deposition it for where it's already at, but keywords that come to mind:
1. bromance 2. platonic love story 3. asexual romance (that would be Vasit'h [sp?])
One of the things I recently encountered was that there is a whole dating site devoted to asexuals looking for platonic romance. Don't ask me how that works because from personal experience, I don't know, but this is a book I would market to that group.
I see your Left Hand of Darkness tendencies again in the relationship because it's almost ambiguous in terms of being more than friendship and different than romantic love, but it's intense and it's there.
I look at the scene where their friend tells them I want that, just with sex was a pretty powerful indicator that this was a love story.
I'd add tags for platonic love story. I'd reach out to the romance community that's looking for something different and for less sex. There's a thread on Dear Author about Made to Order and what people are looking for in fiction. It surprised me somewhat what people are and aren't looking for.
I haven't wandered through romance in a while, so I'm trying to think of the reviewers who would jump all over this, but I can see their websites in my head and am not remembering the names just now. I'll keep thinking.
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1. bromance
2. platonic love story
3. asexual romance (that would be Vasit'h [sp?])
One of the things I recently encountered was that there is a whole dating site devoted to asexuals looking for platonic romance. Don't ask me how that works because from personal experience, I don't know, but this is a book I would market to that group.
I see your Left Hand of Darkness tendencies again in the relationship because it's almost ambiguous in terms of being more than friendship and different than romantic love, but it's intense and it's there.
I look at the scene where their friend tells them I want that, just with sex was a pretty powerful indicator that this was a love story.
I'd add tags for platonic love story. I'd reach out to the romance community that's looking for something different and for less sex. There's a thread on Dear Author about Made to Order and what people are looking for in fiction. It surprised me somewhat what people are and aren't looking for.
I haven't wandered through romance in a while, so I'm trying to think of the reviewers who would jump all over this, but I can see their websites in my head and am not remembering the names just now. I'll keep thinking.
Still chewing, but this is totally a love story.