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I really admire author Angela Knight, she’s such a smart well-spoken woman. Today she wrote a fantastic post on her blog about the true value of romance novels. Here’s an excerpt:
I’ve always had a suspicion that romance novels are actually underground feminist literature. After all, the writers are women, the readers are women – even the editors at Big Six publishers are women, as are the vast majority of e-publishers.
And romance is the 800 pound gorilla of the book market. As Marla Bustillos notes in her article at the Awl.com, “romance is by far the most popular and lucrative genre in American publishing, with over $1.35 billion in revenues estimated in 2010. That is a little less than twice the size of the mystery genre, almost exactly twice that of science fiction/fantasy, and nearly three times the size of the market for classic/literary fiction, according to Simba Information data published at the Romance Writers of America website.”
(This is a great article, by the way. She seemed to view romance the same way I always have. Which is what inspired me to write this blog.)
Yet despite the undeniable popularity of romance, everybody absolutely SNEERS at the genre. Why? That’s simple….
Read the rest of Angela’s though provoking post at her blog Knight Errant. Enjoy!
