ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction. Whether the Blake Lively movie ...

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 Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Yarros, and Sarah J.

Are that many people reading romance?'" In 2023 ... authors like Stephen King who write mass fiction get reviewed by the New York Times. "I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction ...