Submit here for publishing consideration and community feedback. A romance novel is, very loosely, one that has a love story at its center and a happy ending. Within those parameters, this genre encompasses an incredible variety of themes, characters, historical periods, and narrative styles, and the quality keeps getting better, and better, and better.
Romance is an enormous business.
The romance writers community is one of the largest and most active out there, with a well-organized network of professional organizations, conferences, magazines, and workshops. Because romance is such a large and varied field, it can be a little overwhelming. In this self-study, you ll learn about the different kinds of romance fiction. To illustrate the definitions, we ve included some prime examples of each. Also provided are suggestions on how to submit your manuscript if you ve written one that falls into one of the subcategories of romance, and suggestions on how to shop if you d like to read a book in one of the subcategories.