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The Romance Writers of America Fight Back

By AAN Staff
july 23, 2003  11:07 am
The Romance Writers of America Fight Back
Although they represented more than half of all paperback fiction sold in North America last year, romance novels have long been the object of ridicule among the East Coast publishing and critical establishments. But the "shockingly nice ladies" who attended a recent convention of the Romance Writers of America don’t care what anyone thinks about their love stories, and they will remind you that Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte were the best-selling romance novelists of their time. Alexander Zaitchik reports that the romance field has diversified in recent years -- with some subgenres like chick-lit and romantica starting to bump against the limits of the romance formula.
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