Author Marketing Experts

Romancing the Novel

Is romance in the air? Presumably not since sales of romance novels declined by 13 percent last year. Still the numbers for the market are staggering. If you're a romance novelist or thinking of getting into that market, here are some numbers you should know: $1.4 billion was spent on romance novels in 2003 There were 2,093 new romance titles published in 2003 34% of popular fiction sales were romance novels 46% of romance buyers are women ages 25-44

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