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Found the link to this article over at the SB blog.  It’s an interesting look at the romance genre, and I don’t think the article’s author, Joanne Rendell, reads romance.  It’s one of the rare occassion’s when somebody outside the genre gets it right.  🙂

I may not have gotten my answer for why romance is selling so well in our troubled times, but the Princeton conference taught me that to rush to conclusions about romance fiction is to flatten out a rich, varied, and continually evolving genre. In the end, though, I did conclude one thing. People read and enjoy romance just as people deal with hard economic times: differently.-Joanne Rendell, Huffington Post