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Originally Posted by darknessangel
"Romance" ebooks? Let's call it right... that's softcore porn for ladies! XD
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Depends on the book.
Romance has a number of sub-genres, going from chaste and modest, like Barbara Cartland*, to straight up porn, like the Ellora's Cave "erotic romance" ebook line. In between you have "Regency" romances like Georgette Heyer, romantic mysteries, romantic thillers like Harlequin's Silhouette imprint, fantasy romances like Harlequin's Luna imprint, and the enormously popular paranormal romance sub-genre.
You also get things like the Kushiel fantasy series, which is largely BDSM, and which became popular enough that Tor had an Assistant Editor looking for similar things.
Romance reminds me a bit of rock music. Rock has blended with the blues, classical, country music, folk, electronics, jazz and world music to form distinctive sub-genres. Romance seems able to blend with any literary genre and do likewise.
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Dennis