Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.
Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.