Word on the street is that folks believe that romance and yearning are dead. But those of us who read Black romance novels ...

I say that my genre is Black STEM romance which I kind of made up, even though it’s really contemporary fiction, African-American romance, women’s literature. So because of that I think some people ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Illustration of three book covers ... Dating” offers a saccharine romance, while also focusing on ...

I thought I was going to a book conference, but what I got was a crash course in all the ways that Black romance novels are transforming the lives and minds of readers.

Cover image courtesy ... and wrong about love. Her romance books—by design, not default—have become outliers in the publishing industry, since they center Black women as romantic leads.

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 ...

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“Why is it only that the ‘substantive’ books are the ones that are sad and challenging?” As one of romance’s hottest ... “When Black and brown women see themselves centered and ...

Sorry beefcakes and flowing skirts: the cartoon cover is in charge of romance right now. As Rachel Ake Keuch of Random House told Eye on Design, “The current book ... pick up on only once ...

Romance novels thrive ... Picture the cover of the average contemporary romance, particularly a rom-com, and it might look something like this: cartoonlike figures with only the suggestion of ...