Of saints and angels
I recently joined a medieval Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee. A question about violence as spectacle led to a lively discussion of a recently discovered manuscript describing the martyring of St....
View ArticleBoomers need love, too
On June 26th, I (Laurie Kahn) posted some excerpts from our interview with Gwen Osborne, and she wrote to me saying, “I really wanted to underscore the point about the ‘Boomer market.’ Readers are...
View ArticleDigital self-publishing
Fact 1: BookStats, the annual survey of book publishing by the Book Industry Study Group and the Association of American Publishers, reports that in 2011 revenue from e-books surpassed that of physical...
View ArticleSelling books like music?
Pocket Books Senior Editor Abby Zidle has been a romance reader since she was 12 years old, and she planned to write about romance fiction as proto-feminist literature (arguing that it is not...
View ArticleAxelrod on voice
For more than 30 years, Steve Axelrod has been one of the top agents for romance authors—negotiating deals with publishing houses, and helping his clients build their careers. He knows the business...
View ArticleHere’s to Mrs. Robinson
As the 1960s progressed, mainstream media looked warily at a changing American sexual culture. In 1960 the Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of Enovid, the first oral contraceptive,...
View ArticleParanormal’s popularity
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as inspiration? DePaul University professor of English Eric Selinger feels that paranormal fiction gives authors and readers the opportunity to think through ethics...
View ArticleA business in transition
As ebooks, self-publishing, and social media connect writers directly with readers, romance publishers must adapt. Agent Steve Axelrod describes the changes facing the industry, including the new...
View ArticleThe price of romance
The rise of ebooks has rocked the publishing world. Who sets the prices for ebooks? Who gets the profits? What will readers pay, and how should pricing compare with hard copies? Battles between the...
View ArticleReading gay romance
This June I had the honor of teaching a three-hour class on gay romance to students in the Seton Hill University Writing Popular Fiction MFA program. It was the first time the class was offered and...
View ArticleBeing in charge
After seven years with publishers, Bella Andre was left with a choice. She could change her name and start over, or she could become her own publisher. Andre explains the decision to believe in...
View ArticleEmbracing diversity
Seton Hill University alumna Rhonda Jackson Joseph, author of Call It What You Want, has always enjoyed romance. When she first began reading the genre, there were no black romance lines, but today,...
View ArticleParanormal’s popularity
Paranormal romance gives writers and readers the chance to look at big issues too hard to touch in realistic fiction. The post Paranormal’s popularity appeared first on The Popular Romance Project.
View ArticleReading gay romance
Same-sex romance novels have taken off in the past few years. Author Jessica Freely looks at who reads these stories, and why. The post Reading gay romance appeared first on The Popular Romance Project.
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