Her scathing essay, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, about the romance novels of female authors at the time was passed off as the work of a man, George Eliot. Evans was vehement in separating her ...
By Sarah Wendell Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around ...
It is this sort of characterisation and human touch that helps to make romance novels enduringly popular - and lucrative for successful authors in the genre. Seattle-based Ms Quinn is said to have ...