Because writing about gay male sex scenes on television does not actually pay all my bills, I have another job, and in that job I'm a contributing editor for a nationally syndicated pet column called Pet Connection. So I get sent review copies of basically every single book written in English about pets, in the hope that I'm going to review it. And that usually has no bearing on what I do here on AfterElton.com, but the other day, it did. Because I got sent Woof!: A Gay Man's Guide to Dogs.

And I asked my editor, hey, should I review this on the blog? Because you know, it's a gay book, and we write about gay books.

And he looked pained, well, I guess he did because this was in an email so I can only imagine how he looked, and said, "Okay. If you must." So I am. But first, a question.

Ever see the movie Best in Show?

So, although the Romance Writers of America decided, after some soul searching, to continue to define romance as that sweet, sweeping feeling of insanity love between two people (rather than, as some members wanted, between a "man and woman"), Hyatt Hotels apparently doesn't feel the same.

Male/male romance novelist Laura Baumbach attended the Romantic Times convention in Houston last week, and found out that the host hotel, the Hyatt Regency Houston, had a problem with her books, her promotional material, and apparently, gay romance in general.

On her blog, Sensually Wicked Man Love (would I make that up? COULD I?), she wrote:

I write gay erotic romance and fiction. I write in a RWA accepted genre. I’m at a romance conference. My writing wins awards. My books are on best selling lists on both Amazon and B&N. My work is good! I own a small press that print publishes only gay erotic romance and fiction, MLR Press. But I couldn’t find my promo and that of the other gay work I represent anywhere.