r/Romance_for_men

Hello RFM community! We are making some changes to promotion posts in our community. You can find the full rules over on the promotion rules wiki page. The main changes are:

• Removal of the participation requirement
• Promotion limited to 6 books per account per year (mods will make exceptions for authors engaged in the community beyond promoting their own work)
• Books must meaningfully center romance (Co-plot or higher) and include a HEA
• Authors must complete a one-time submission form before posting. That form can be found here.

Why change the rules?

We are limiting promotion to create a fairer and less crowded front page that is, at the same time, more open to new writers.

The front page is a shared space. Promotion posts need to share space with discussion posts, and author's promotion posts need to share space with each other. Some authors were posting upwards of twenty-five books a year, while others maybe one or two. A six-book-per-year limit creates a more level promotional field. Exceptions will be made for authors who are positively engaged in the community outside of their own works.

Originally the participation rule served two purposes, to reward active authors, and to serve as an informal onboarding process for authors new to the genre. It sounded great in theory, but in practice it encouraged vapid comments, enforcement was uneven, and it mostly acted as a barrier to new authors. Books that fit within our community were being rejected, while a small number of authors were getting a lot of front page visibility. My hope is that by removing the participation requirement, all authors can focus on writing, and more authors will get a chance to promote.

The form ensures that all promoted books meet our core genre requirements (HEA and romance focus) before reaching the front page. This allows us to apply rules consistently and avoid back-and-forth moderation. It is a regular occurrence (particularly on the Discord) for writers to join wanting to share their story, not realizing there is a difference between a love story (with a tragic ending) and genre romance. Authors who have already participated in our community are grandfathered; please reach out to via modmail so we can add an exception to the automod rule for you.

At minimum, romance must be a co-plot, meaning the relationship materially affects the story’s direction and outcome. That means the primary relationship(s) should not just exist in the story, the story should be, to some degree, about the relationship.

The mod team will continue to make adjustments as need arises.

Do u also don't like stories where a human character who falls in love with a non-human character, decides to become like their partner, like change their species, just to be with their partner?

Take an example from James cameron avatar and little mermaid. They sacraficed their body to be with someone they love.

And It's lacking self pride in the relationship, they forget who they were before.

And that's what I hate the most, that's how relationships turns bad when the person change to be with someone they love.

Like tell me, do I have to amputate my legs after falling in love with a dwarf? Or do I have to ask my werewolf mate to bite me on the shoulder that would make me turn into an alpha butthole? Or ask some elder witch to curse me with dragonshifting?

I wouldn't be the same or wouldn't change back after doing that for someone I love.

Which is why I prefer stories that doesn't have those. Self pride should be always important when it comes with starting a relationship with someone different than you.

Because if you fall in love with someone who's different than you, and she wants you to sacrafice what you had, just to be with her, then leave her Johnny.

Leave her.

Now this one took me by surprise!

I read {K. R. Treadway’s His Orc Charioteer Bride} on a total whim. The cover looks quite quirky, but the idea of an erotic romance with an orc woman still interested me for promising a strong and passionate FMC.

But I wasn’t prepared for such a good story. First of all: It’s very slow burn. If you come only for spice you’ll have to skip a lot.

But actually the story is really worth it to read. The characters and their evolving relationship are so endearing! The outset is full of suspense and the MMC (and with him the reader) doesn’t know what’s going on for a long time.

The spice itself has no dark kinks or anything, just intensity coming from the relationship and her orc nature. I loved this, as it is what I aspire to myself in my own work.

What I truly admired was how the author managed to write a very powerful female character without making the male character totally weak. He’s a survivor. But he’s also totally proud of his powerful wild woman. 😍

The worldbuilding is on a smaller scale, because the novel is practically a chamber play taking place in a gladiator prison complex. But it is a nice twist on many fantasy tropes. You have evil elves using orcs as charioteers.

A fun read! A page turner! All out recommendation!

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B0GWVZZ5FD

Some stories don’t begin. They claim you.

I recently published the first four-part arc of my erotic romance project on Kindle (unlimited and purchase).

And from Sunday 10th to Monday 11th it’s free for you!

One night, a mysterious woman climbs through Alex’s window and ties him to the bed. He should scream for help — he doesn’t.

But the woman is not here to rob him. And Alex soon learns that some encounters will change you forever.

Because some eyes don’t just see.
They possess.

The story is set in a vibrant, dreamlike version of Lisboa — somewhere between noir romance, fever dream and dark fairytale.

It centers on emotional tension, dangerous attraction, vulnerability, and the slow transformation of two people drawn into each other’s orbit long before they understand what’s happening to them.

The story is very sensuous, character-driven, emotionally intense, and written for readers who enjoy romance that balances tenderness, desire, power, and mystery. It develops from pure heat and longing to something deeper and transformative.

Themes include:

- mysterious woman
- emotional push-and-pull
- dreamlike noir atmosphere
- emotional transformation
- existential eroticism
- explicit intimacy
- darker atmosphere without nihilism, cruelty or degradation

Romance [5] Sex [4-5]

Thank you to the mods for making posting more friendly to newer authors!

I've been writing for about a year, but I'm new to posting in this sub (I've been casually observing).

I'm Shawarma, a haremlit author who can promise a HEA even if it takes a little drama to get there.

Let me introduce you to my work and hopefully convince one of you to read.

Windrake Series: a magical academy fantasy with hidden identities and enough plot twists to make you dizzy.
Windrake's Rogue (Book 1)
Windrake's Assassin (Book 2)
Windrake's Fugitive (Book 3) is currently in the works

Leyva's Champion: an anti-hero fantasy that combines my elven priestess kink with my weakness for amazon warriors.
Book 1
Book 2 planned

I apologize to the monoromance connoisseurs, my MCs are lucky in both the quantity and quality of their love interests.

Cheers,
Shawarma

Something like Extra's Academy Survival Guide where some of the girls are insanely powerful, and fiercely protective of the MC. It made my insides all fuzzy so im chasing that same feeling.. Can be any genre as long as it has romance..

Alright, so I got bored and made an small lazy drawing, but the other romance book group declined it cause they allow only fanarts and covers (bruh). So I wanna post it here.

Anyways, since we love romance about wives that turns into wolves, I decided to make a top 10 'mhxfw' romance. So here's my top 10.

1. {Date With a Drifter by SnekGuy}
2. {Love Bytes by W.D. Robertson}
3. Terry Henry Walton Chronicles by Craig Martelle
4. Bleacke Shifters by Lesli Richardson
5. {The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper} (Still sad the audiobook is not available in my country)
6. {My Girlfriend is a Werewolf by Eve Langlais}
7. Wolf like me (Didn't said books only. Still waiting for season 3)
8. Spice and Wolf by Isuna Hasekura (Mangas are fine too)
9. {Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause} (Only the movie)

And 10. {The Lycanthrope Club: Book II by Tristan Eifler} (I only like the part where >!Philip was snuggling with Melinda in her werewolf form.!<The rest dissapointed me. >!It was when they turned Philip into a werewolf!<)

And that's all for my Top 10. If you have any opinions to share about my top 10 or the art putted, feel free to comment. If you have any other existing 'male human x female werewolf romance' title in your mind, I'd be happy if you'd share some.

Anyone who's looking for those type of books, here's the link to my list. Hope this helps:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/412319.male_human_x_female_werewolf_books

Edit: To those who shared their books to me and didn't saw it on my top 10. I swear, I didn't forgot about it or threw it away. I will read/listen to it, I swear. It stay on my google chrome android and I will read it.

So I made a new list on goodreads, called 'Choosing a Dragoness over a Princess' and gotta be adding books that are fantasy, or romance or sci-fi. But it will contain a romance between a female dragon and a man.

Which is why I'm posting a request because I don't have much on this list, and wanna ask u guys if ya'll have any title names that contains this type.

The dragoness can be a shifter, anthropomorphic or even demihuman (Or you can send me the title through chat)

The man can be a peasant, knight, prince, king, some servant, or just a regular guy wandering around cause he likes so.

But no parts where he becomes himself a dragon! Absolutely not! NONE!

Thank u ;)

(Art made by Hattonslayer)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/415118.Choosing_a_Dragoness_over_a_Princess

Edit: Thank you to those who sen't me the titles of the books that are on 'royalroad', 'ao3' or even 'wattpad', but I'm looking mostly for the books that are available on goodreads. Not saying you shouldn't post the titles that are from those websites, just saying that I would like the one that I could add them to my list on goodreads.