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I got a lesson in the needs of romance readers while standing in a checkout line at the library a while back. The woman ahead of me had a cardboard box filled with romance novels. I asked her if she could possibly read that many books. No, not really, she said. The problem was that she had read many of them before, but could never be sure until she got a couple dozen pages into them. The last thing she wanted is to be caught without a book to read, so she had to lug cartons of books back home. If she wanted 20 books, she had to check out at least 40.
As others observed above, this is a different level of desperation than you find among most readers of literary fiction. If you've got to be writing, better to be writing for fanatics.
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