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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Also, I fit the demographic in the article and I don't write romances. Of my clients that also fit that demographic, only one writes romance (part of the time). The rest write mysteries or urban fantasy. One of the ladies writes horror part of the time (I don't edit the horror so I can't speak to how well it does or how much is being written).
That's not to say romance isn't being written, but most of the queries I get for editing lean to fantasy and mystery pretty heavily. When I do free short story giveaways on my blog periodically (from various writers) I have only ever had one romance writer participate. I've also taken ads at the blog a few times and none have been for romance. It could be a reflection of my own blog readership though.
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Well I did say that I didn't think every female author was writing Romances. Though certainly in traditional publishing more women were writing Romance than men were (and male authors used female pen names). I grant that different genre's probably do vary in popularity over time as well. The same thing happens with movies. For a decade or so monster movies are big then it's SF and them Musicals and then cop dramas like Dirty Harry etc. People get a glut of one genre and switch to another for a while til they get tired of it and switch again.