Publishers are happy to provide these tip sheets as romance writing has perhaps the strictest of all writer guidelines. Harlequin has a information booklet available to writers who want to know more about the company, general submission format and line guidelines. It is important to do your research before you submit. 3K9 Tip sheets may seem confining at first, but there really is quite a bit of room left for the writer once certain criteria have been met. In fact, tip sheets let romance writers off the hook on fiddly details that other writers grapple over.
Romance novels are comforting and dependable because of their happy endings.
Romance novels have, however, seen change over the years. To write romance, you must keep up with the times. Your heroine isn't sunning because she's afraid of UV rays. No, she's at work, then she'll go pick up her kids at daycare and later that night speak with her lawyer about The Divorce. OK, so romance needs to be a little sugar coated but characters cannot be cardboard cutouts of times past.