Our recent paper, based on interviews with romance editors and authors, shows that America’s biggest book publishers originally viewed LGBTQ+ romance as a niche market, tweaking their approach ...

Helen Hoang, bestselling author of romance books set in modern times, says there is now much more diversity in the genre, both in terms of the fictional characters and the writers. She claims this ...

In 2016, there was exactly one bookstore in America dedicated to romance novels. Now, there are more than 20 across the country, and romance authors like ... who download the books to e-readers.