Why Do People Read Romance Novels?
To succeed as an author in the Romance genre, you need to understand what people are looking for when they pick up your books.
Romance novels are a $1.8 billion industry. Yes, you read that number right. This is the genre that sits proudly atop the commercial sales throne, and if you do a good job of writing and marketing your own steamy stories, you can sit right up there with it.
To do that, you need to know why Romance is large and in charge. That means learning, memorizing, and embodying the reasons causing millions of voracious readers to buy book after book in this category.
Having spent a fair bit of time researching this (and being a 5–8 book a month “whale” reader myself), I’ve synthesized a few of these reasons in order to help you boost your sales, write better stories, and attract legions of adoring fans. You ready?
It’s More Than A Feeling — It’s What Readers WANT To Feel.
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