The decision to buy you again and recommend you to their friends is going to depend on That One Book. What scares me even more is that every book of mine may be the first romance somebody reads. There I am, responsible for the genre. And so are you. We all are.
Category is an elegant, exacting, exciting form of fiction.
It requires precise pacing, tight plotting, and exquisitely brief characterizations. It is truly as fine a form for fiction as the sonnet is for poetry. But most of all it deserves writers who respect their readers, who honor and protect their work, and who write the very best books they can every time. Anything less, and we deserve the moat ducks.