[Nicole Castro]

Ah, billionaires. As a trope, it goes back a long, long way.

Jane: "Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

Elizabeth: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."

LMAO perfect.

 

[Christa Wick]

Ismcrazy -- isn't that kinda like the movie barflies?

 

[Marti talbott]

Guilty as charged. "sigh."

 

[Sapphire]

I was wondering the same thing, and so I went to google to look up the number of male billionaires (in US$) in the world who are single and good looking and of marriagable age.

And...?

 

[D.L. Shutter]

Mega popular titles equates to themes of new and expanded popularity. Happens with every breakout, genre changing book that comes along. But, as an erotica reader, I'll agree that the "billionairre" card is being thrown around an awful lot in erotica now. Maybe too much. I personally won't touch anything with the "B" word in the title anymore. Have seen too many books where there was no fantasy world of wealth or captivating, all powerful character, just a tagline and keyword thrown in the mix it seemed. I obviously haven't read them all so that's only an opinion.

But at the end of the day; if you're having fun writing it, and readers are buying, then more power to you.

 

[71089]

I feel like you're talking to me 

Sorry but I can name the reason number 1 for most authors:

It sells. 

 

[EC Sheedy]

ISMCRAZY said: ...soon Billionaires won't even be able to offer enough and there will be a long line of romance novels about missunderstood island-nation dictators and the women who taim them.

I think you should write this!

(Really!)

 

[Claudia King]

They used to be millionaires, but with inflation now they're billionaires.

Hey, the guy in my eRom serial is still a millionaire!

I'm totally retro like that.

 

[lisamaliga]

Maybe this could be considered research for the next series of books
http://www.amazon.com/TRILLIONAIRE-Create-Sustain-Hyper-Growth-Environment/dp/1425996337

 

[Nicole Castro]

Because billionaires are dead-sexy.

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

They are all 10,000 years old.

 

[Dan Fiorella]

Have you missed the memo on sheiks and sultans? For a while they were everywhere too. And Italians or other nationalities as well. Titles like "The Sultan's Pregnant Bride," or "To Catch an Italian Billionaire." "Greek Tycoon's Girlfriend." I'm betting these books are about exactly what the title says, and the reader knows exactly what she's getting and doesn't expect anything more, um, in-depth.

this bodes well for my new book "Billionaires on a Plane."

 

[PhoenixS]

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[Nicole Castro]

So my next book will be about a shy, virginal college girl who becomes an intern at Berkshire Hathaway and ends up in a three-way with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates aboard a Gulfstream from Netjets on the way to China.

You might as well make one of them a vampire and the other a werewolf while you're at it!!

 

[MegHarris]

I don't quite understand why the billionaire thing would annoy anyone. It's just a trend, like werewolves or vampires. Yes, it's a slightly silly trend (there are virtually no young, sexy billionaires anywhere in the world), but it's no sillier than werewolves, really.

I have two billionaire series. What I like about them is the power issue-- you have one guy who's rich and powerful and used to getting anything he wants at the snap of his fingers, and another guy or gal who is not rich and who may resent the wealthy guy's attempts to control them, even as s/he is dazzled by the wealth and glitter. This is what I find interesting about the idea, personally.

This makes me wonder-- has anyone written a female billionaire book? That would be an interesting but different power dynamic.

 

[EC Sheedy]

Freedom from want, a custom-made closet for shoes, a car that starts, dinner in Paris, paying off the Visa, black satin sheets--a billionaire can provide them all. It's a fantasy made for our times. Toss in the appropriately well-defined abs and what's not to buy?

Personally I'd prefer he not be a vampire--but that's just me...

 

[D.L. Shutter]

has anyone written a female billionaire book? That would be an interesting but different power dynamic.

Ellen Dominic has a title like that. The female Dom character wears the pants...and the phallus. I believe she's said it's not her best seller.

 

[Dee Ernst]

When I imagine a billionaire, the first face that comes to mind is of Bill Gates.  I guess I need to rethink this, right?

 

[Vaalingrade]

I just like that, by sub-genre, billionaires are treated exactly like monsters. They're functionally interchangeable with any other weird creature whose accepted lore has been changed to make them bedable and whom pretty much no woman will ever sleep with. A billionaire s a vampire is a werewolf is a worm-that-walks.

Yes, and I'd argue much of Dracula's mystique came from his wealth, as well.

Dracula had a hypnotic gaze. He had no need for conventional lady-bait.

 

[ElisaBlaisdell]

Ah, billionaires. As a trope, it goes back a long, long way.

Jane: "Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

Elizabeth: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."

Getting off topic, but the beautiful thing about this conversation is that it's completely true in a non-mercenary way too.

 

[philstern]

Women find rich dudes attractive. I think that's one stereotype that holds pretty true.