@TheEdVerse for the sake of flavour & whimsy may we have a look into the Suzail Times Bestseller List of chapbooks 1e greybox times? I get a vibe from your and other novelists from back then that the top genre is bodice rippers. Any close competition?
— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) February 8, 2019
B1) As of 1357-1360 DR, examples of #1 include: Amalthea’s Bright Ventures (steamy sex scenes, and a heroine who likes partners of both genders, is plucky and dense but improbably land-on-her-feet lucky; readers can see troubles…#Realmslore 2) …and pitfalls she’s blundering into before she does, but she’s merry and naïve and endearing) by Lalandra Thoelur; The Revel At The Naughty Unicorn (a book-length lurid description of the unfolding debaucheries at a revel…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019
3) …held by mischievous young nobles at a rented, fictitious Suzailan club in order to catch their elders in compromising situations; it succeeds all too well and involves the club being wrecked and set afire by mischance amid…#Realmslore 4) …all the lusty doings) by Bors Baskalyn (almost certainly a pen-name, likely of a courtier employed at the Royal Court); and Calathae’s Crossed Blades (the adventures of a crossdressing young country lass of improbably great…#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019
5) …beauty and sword-skills, who sleeps, duels, and adventures her way through a series of wildly-fictitious noble mansions in search of her True Partner whom she can trust, as opposed to the many partners she finds pleasure…#Realmslore 6) …with; in the end, Calathae becomes the consort of a widowed lady of high rank, and they live happily ever after, though not before some hot scenes no reader in Suzail wanted to miss, …#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019
B7) …involving sex while tied to the back of a galloping horse).#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2019