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Lea Santos
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Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
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M. M. Kaye
m/m romance
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María del Pilar Carré
Maria Edgeworth
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Marie Sexton
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Marjorie Moore
marriage
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Mary Balogh
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Mary Burton
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Mary Hamilton
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Jo Putney
Mary LaPietra
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Mary Moore
Mary Renault
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Mary Stewart
Mary Stolz
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Mary Webb
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Maud Diver
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Maureen Daly
Max du Veuzit
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May McGoldrick
Maya Banks
Maya Rodale
Maysie Greig
medical romance
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Melissa McClone
Melissa Senate
Meljean Brook
Meredith Duran
Meredith Fletcher
Meredith Webber
Merline Lovelace
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Michele Hauf
Michelle Martin
Michelle Reid
Michelle Styles
Milton
Mina Esguerra
Mina V. Esguerra
Miriam Macgregor
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Monica White
Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc
Morocco
Mrs F. E. Penny
Mura
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Muslim romance
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N. K. Jemisin
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Nalini Singh
Nan Ryan
Nancy Kennedy
Nancy Martin
Natalie Anderson
Natalie Normann
Nataly von Eschstruth
Natal’ia Mironova
national identity
Native American romance
Nell Stark
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Netta Muskett
New Zealand
Nicholas Sparks
Nicole Alexander
Nicole C. Vosseler
Nicole Jordan
Nicole Peeler
Nigeria
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Norrey Ford
Norway
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Oceania
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Olivia Gates
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Ouida
Paganism/Wicca
Pakistan
Pam Rosenthal
Pamela Britton
Pamela Kent
Pamela Morsi
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
paratext
Pat Warren
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Gaffney
Patricia Gallagher
Patricia Haley
Patricia Knoll
Patricia Matthews
Patricia Pellicane
Patricia Potter
Patricia Rice
Patricia Veryan
Patricia Wrede
Patrick Califia
Patti Berg
Paula Christian
Paula Detmer Riggs
Paula Marshall
Paula Quinene
Peggy Stoks
Peggy Webb
Penelope Neri
Penelope Williamson
Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney
Philippines
philosophy
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Phyllis Matthewman
Piper Huguley
pirates and outlaws
Poland
police officers/police forces
Polly Forrester
pornography
Portugal
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Publishing
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race/ethnicity
Rachael Treasure
Rachel Bo
Rachel Gibson
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Rachelle Swift
Radclyffe
Radclyffe Hall
Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Rafael Sabatini
Rahel Meyer
Randy Salem
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Rayda Jacobs
readers
Rebecca Flanders
Rebecca Stratton
Rebecca York
Regina Scott
religion/spirituality
Rhoda Broughton
Richelle Mead
Rilla Berg
Rita Clay Estrada
Rita Mae Brown
Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys
Riya Lakhani
Robert Hitchens
Roberta Gayle
Roberta Gellis
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Robin Lee Hatcher
Robin McKinley
Robin Morgan
Robyn Carr
Robyn Donald
Rochelle Alers
rom-com romance
Romance
romance and, or as, activism
romance scholarship
romances in magazines/romance magazines
romantic suspense
Roni Loren
Rosa María Aranda
Rosa Praed
Rosalie Henaghan
Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington
Rosamond du Jardin
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosanne Bittner
Rose Lerner
Rosemary Rogers
Roslyn Hardy Holcomb
Roumelia Lane
Roz Denny Fox
Ruby Lang
Ruby M. Ayres
rural romance
Russia
Ruth Jean Dale
Ruth Lamb
Ruth Lininger Dobson
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Ruthie Knox
Sabrina Jefferies
Sabrina Jeffries
Sally Painter
Sally Wentworth
Salomon Formstecher
Samantha Kane
Samoa
Samuel Richardson
Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta
Sandra Brown
Sandra Canfield
Sandra Hill
Sandra Kitt
Sandra Marton
Sandra Schwab
Sara Seale
Sara Wood
Sarah Aldridge
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Sarah Holland
Sarah James
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah MacLean
science fiction/futuristic romance
science/technology
Scotland
Serena Bell
Sergeanne Golon
settings
sex/sexuality
Shakespeare
Shana Abé
Shari MacDonald
Sharon and Tom Curtis
Sharon Brondos
Sharon Ewell Foster
Sharon Kendrick
Sharon Sala
Sharon Shinn
Sharon Swann
sheikh romance
Sheila Walsh
Shelly Laurenston
Sherilee Gray
Sherri WhiteFeather
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherry Thomas
Shirlee Busbee
Shirley Hailstock
Shirley Jump
Simona Ahrnstedt
Singapore
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter Scott
Slovenia
small towns
social class
socialism and/or communism
sociology
Sonali Dev
Sonya Pelton
Sophia Kapp
Sophie Barnes
Sophie Cole
Sophie Weston
South Africa
Spain
Stanley Weyman
steampunk
Stefania Bertola
Stella Cameron
Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Stephanie Bond
Stephanie Laurens
Sue Byfield
Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Sukey Vickery
Suleikha Snyder
Susan Carroll
Susan Donovan
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Susan Fraser King
Susan Howatch
Susan Johnson
Susan Krinard
Susan Mallery
Susan Napier
Susan Plunkett
Susan Stephens
Susan Warner
Susan Wiggs
Susanna Kearsley
Susannah Carleton
Suzanne Brockmann
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Enoch
Suzanne Robinson
Suzanne Simmons Guntrum
Sweden
Sylvia Andrews
Sylvia Day
Sylvia Thorpe
SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois
Taiwan
Tamera Alexander
Tami Hoag
Tanya Huff
Tara Taylor Quinn
Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy
teaching romance
Temple Bailey
Teresa Edgerton
Teresa Medeiros
Terri Brisbin
Terry Blackstock
Tess Gerritsen
Tessa Dare
Tessa Radley
Thailand
Theresa Romain
Thomas Hardy
Tina McElroy Ansa
Tina St. John
Toni Jordan
Tracey Garvis Graves
translation
trash/literary quality
Turkey
Twilight
UK
United States of America
Ursula Bloom
Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel
V. C. Andrews
Valerie Belgrave
Valerie K. Nelson
Valerie Parv
Valerie Sherwood
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Thian
Vera Caspary
Vicki Essex
Vicki Hinze
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Victoria Aldridge
Victoria Gordon
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Viña Delmar
Violet Winspear
virginity
Wallace Hamilton
Walter Jon Williams
Wanda Brunstetter
war/armed forces
wealth/prosperity
Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens
Wilhelmine von Hillern
Wilkie Collins
Winston Churchill
work
Xenophon of Ephesus
YA/teenage romance
Yeveny Bomou/Bomou Karidja
Zaid Akhtar
Zane
Zoë Archer