CBC.ca Arts - Romance cuts across racial lines, publishers find
Between the cat food and the diapers in most North American supermarkets lurks a haven of verdant passion.
It's the aisle for romance novels and its customer in 2007 is nearly always female, but just as likely to be a woman of colour as a Caucasian soccer mom.
Publishing houses across North American are creating new lines of romances aimed at people of Asian and African descent, according to Brian Miller, a Seattle journalist who follows the market for romance novels.
The article doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know, but hey--we're getting coverage. And we should get even more as Black History Month approaches!
(Okay, I'll admit--I'm shocked that there's a journalist in Seattle who follows the market for romance novels.)
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