The Bad Sex Award

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 1:44 am

Spotted over at Dear Author,

The Bad Sex writing award was given to Rowan Summerville for a single line:

Rowan Somerville won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the U.K.s most dreaded literary prize, for a scene in which a nipple is likened to the upturned nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing in the night.

Somervillle was on hand to accept her award and did so with grace. Can you imagine this happening in romancelandia? No, me either.

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 3:17 am

Aw, I kind of like it.

Ariadne · Post by **Ariadne** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 3:32 am

That line really isn't terrible. One of the other lines quoted from the book, though, is rather icky - but then it was undoubtedly meant to be icky. (Also, DA got it wrong; the author is male.)

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 3:35 am

Now I am haunted by visions of anteaters.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 3:40 am

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]Now I am haunted by visions of anteaters.[/quote]

Snort. Could have used a monitor warning with that one

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Wed December 1st, 2010, 9:25 pm

I take exception to the idea that anteaters are the lovliest of the nocturnal animals.

And the runners-up were?

wendy · Post by **wendy** » Fri December 3rd, 2010, 2:33 pm

If "any publicity is good publicity" why do we reward BAD writing?!!!

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Fri December 3rd, 2010, 5:45 pm

With writing as with singing, sometimes it takes talent to be truly horrible.