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I came home from church and sat down to catch up on twitter. And what did I see but something from @jafurtado – a link to this Globe and Mail article about how Harlequin romance was revolutionizing the epublishing market.
I’m always interested in how epublishing can be revolutionized, but the article didn’t give me the details I wanted. It attributed everything to the fan community, and I wanted to know how this fan community was being fostered by publishers. I did a quick search on google, and hopped over to http://www.allromanceebooks.com/ — and lookee what I found there!
It’s happened again, the way it did with electronic submissions — while specfic writers are arguing about whether a fanfic-style categorization of our genre can be done, and whether it’s worth publishers’ time to do it even if it’s possible, romance writers and publishers have long since done it and taken the money to the bank.
Every romance novel I’ve read has struck me as brain-numbing. But the people who write and publish them seem to be head and ears smarter than those of us who are writing that way-intelligent specfic.
One HUGE caveat, though — they have my book in stock! They obviously need an additional category for ‘unromantic.’
