RomanceWiki.com Tells The Story of Romance Novels

RomanceWiki.com Tells The Story of Romance Novels

The story of romance novels, from the roots of the genre to today’s New York Times bestsellers, is being written online at www.RomanceWiki.com. The new site launches on February 14th, in celebration of the official holiday of romance novels, Valentine’s Day.

By encouraging the entire romance community to add their stories and insights, RomanceWiki will create an ongoing history of the market-leading romance genre. Never before has there been a single resource to combine the various elements of the genre: authors, books, publishers, awards, reviews, influences, and connections. In addition to building the history of romance novels, RomanceWiki provides resources for journalists, authors, and readers.

… According to the Romance Writers of America, romance fiction continues to command over 50% the mass-market fiction sales and over 30% of fiction sales in general. Key elements of romance novels are included in every other genre of fiction and are commonly found in other media.

From the massive flow of cutesy or bizarre Valentine-themed press releases from authors and publishers, I select this one as worthy because of the nice way it ties together books and technology. Doing that was my original goal when I created this site’s progenitor, the Internet Book Information Center, on March 30, 1994.

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