Come into the world of erotic romance and meet the authors who made millions by transforming their fantasies into fiction.
NAUGHTY BOOKS: A Documentary directed by Austen Eleanore Rachlis and starring Kelli Maine, Laurelin Paige, Kristen Proby, CJ Roberts, Aimee Garcia, Allison Tolman and Aisha Tyler is available now!
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About Naughty Books
No one was prepared for the success of Fifty Shades of Grey. Originally written in 2010 as a piece of Twilight fan fiction and posted online, it eventually sold over 100 million copies, taking erotica mainstream. But women didn't only read erotica in large numbers; they also wrote it. In the aftermath of Fifty Shades a cottage industry emerged around self-published romance novels. Once women who worked forty-hour-a-week jobs, living paycheck-to-paycheck, many of them are now New York Times bestselling authors with their own merchandise lines and die-hard fans. Naughty Books follows three such women: an Air Force vet, a telemarketer, and a hospital administrator who became millionaires in under a year by using pen names to sell erotica online. They garnered thousands of fans and secured lucrative book deals with major publishing houses by writing about good girls and bad boys finding love and having steamy sex. However, as more and more people saw writing erotic romance as a quick path to money and fame, the market became saturated with hundreds of romance novels published every month, making success difficult to maintain…
Naughty Books will be available to rent on October 13th across digital, cable, and satellite platforms.
Watch the trailer today >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Nikki's Review:
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Screener Provided by Social Butterfly PR
Naughty Books is a documentary that explores the romance genre, the self publishing world, authors, and readers. I went into this movie thinking that I’d like it, but what I wasn’t expecting was a profound sense of sadness. I wasn’t sad because there was something wrong with the documentary, because it was amaze balls. I was sad because I was reminded of how much I miss the book community. My people, my friends, my tribe. The pandemic made it impossible to connect with this community this year, and while I felt gloomy for a moment, I was reminded that romance books are the reason I found this incredible circle of people. A large circle, but one I never feel lost in it.
I seriously had a smile on my face for most of the movie. I kept pausing it and saying to my husband “oh my god, she is an awesome writer “. Or “ I’ve read that book!” I also discovered a couple of new to me authors that I’m going to look up.
One of the things that I really liked was the positive feel through the whole thing. For so many women, reading romance is a secret. They get the stink eye from friends or colleagues because they read “those books”. This documentary was saying...read those books, Baby! And I could seriously be besties with the ladies who own The Ripped Bodice book store!
You get a little peek into the personal lives of some of the featured authors. That made these rockstars ( because authors are my rockstars) seem like the average person. Incredibly talented average person, for sure, but they have some of the same struggles that their fans can relate to. It was a privilege to see that.
The only part of the documentary that I didn’t like was when the mother of one the featured authors said that her daughter was capable of writing better stuff. Better stuff meaning, not romance. I cringed when she said that. It was such a back handed “compliment”, and it really perpetuates that myth that romance is less than, or fluff.
This is a must see for any romance book lover, or anyone who just likes a well done documentary.
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