Who'll Take Romance?

Author
Publication year
1984
Journal
The Women's Review of Books
Volume
1.5
Pages
12-13
Comment

This is primarily a review of:

  • How to Write a Romance and Get It Published by Kathryn Falk
  • How to Write Romance Novels That Sell by Marilyn M. Lowery
  • Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures by Rosemary Guiley
  • Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women by Tania Modleski
  • Writing Romance Fiction for Love and Money by Helene Schellenberg Barnhart

I have included it because it's not just a review: Toth argues in it that romance has been changing and is compatible with feminism. She also describes her own romance writing and student responses to discovering that their professor writes this kind of fiction.