[stylist] Fantasy and the conservative reader?

[helene ryles]

Hi Lori,
The nude scenes can be abandoned but the disabled characters are
central to the novel so I'm afraid they will stay.

Liza is not completely deafblind. She can hear abit with CI and before
that with HA and also she uses sign language and fingerspelling in
situations where that is not possible.

Helene

On 05/10/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
> I wasn't as concerned about the nude scene as I was about the fact so many
> people were deaf, blind, or a combination of the two, and also otherwise
> disabled.   You don't say how Liza communicates.   Does she talk and hope
> people can hear her?   Often found myself wondering, though at times you did
> mention fingerspelling.
> Lori
> In a message dated 10/4/09 11:31:41 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:
>
>
>> I am getting contradictory advice again regarding my novel.
>> Particularly wether on not to remove that last nude bit from chapter
>> 14.
>> Someone else told me to keep them in because only conservative readers
>> would object and they wouldn't be interested in my book anyway.
>> So I'm interested, particularly from Judith and Barbara who were the
>> ones who objected to these scenes, wether they would be interested in
>> fantasy based novels in the first place? Judith did seem interested in
>> the beggining.
>>
>> It helps to know your reader but this is my first novel intended for
>> outside views so I'm still finding my feet where my readership is
>> concerned.
>> I've removed the nude bit as it is not really central to the plot.
>>
>> What do other people think so far?
>>
>> Helene
>>
>>
>
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