Even if you don't read romance novels, you probably think you know romance novels. From the Harlequin books of the 1980s through the bodice-rippers prominently featuring Fabio (or Fabio-adjacent) ...

It’s no secret that history is often manipulated by those who have the power to control the future’s perception of it. However, great books, literature, art and well-written screenplays hold the clues ...

The group worked for decades to build the profile of the genre and its writers. Now romance fiction is booming — but the R.W.A. has filed for bankruptcy. What happened? By Robert Ito Romance novels ...

It’s no secret: Romance novels are having a 21st-century moment. Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see shelves upon shelves of brightly colored book covers promising meet-cutes, friends-to-lovers ...

If you’ve stepped foot in a bookstore in the past four years, odds are you’ve come across engaging romance novels by author Emily Henry. You know the front table stacked with beach reads at the first ...

It’s been a good year for romance publishing: print unit sales for the first nine months of 2023 were up 16.5% compared with the same period in 2022, according to Circana BookScan, and authors ...

Romance novels do big business for the publishing industry, and there’s a new source for those books going mainstream. As Elizabeth Held wrote in Vulture, publishing houses are looking to the world of ...

Beth Driscoll received funding for this research from Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP160101308, 'Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century.' Kim Wilkins received ...

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Jodi McAlister is the Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Jayashree Kamblé serves as the current President of the International Association for the Study ...