http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/university-student-pens-positive-article-about-romance-books/ Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Paranormal, Young Adult, Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Sat, 26 May 2012 15:10:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/university-student-pens-positive-article-about-romance-books/#comment-11731 Laura Vivanco Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:35:41 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/university-student-pens-positive-article-about-romance-books/#comment-11731 A pity she didn't work out that this wasn't a 'Harlequin romance' but I suppose some people use 'Harlequin' as a generic term, to describe any short romance, in the same way that 'hoover' is used to describe lots of non-Hoover vaccuum cleaners. Still, she's only a very new romance reader - she'll learn, and maybe if she goes online she'll find online discussions about romance which will help her get over her astonishment that '45 percent of romance readers are college graduates and 50 percent work outside the home'. Actually, <a href="https://www.rwanational.org/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?webcode=StatisticsReader" rel="nofollow">according to the RWA</a> the percentage of readers who are graduates is much higher. A pity she didn’t work out that this wasn’t a ‘Harlequin romance’ but I suppose some people use ‘Harlequin’ as a generic term, to describe any short romance, in the same way that ‘hoover’ is used to describe lots of non-Hoover vaccuum cleaners. Still, she’s only a very new romance reader – she’ll learn, and maybe if she goes online she’ll find online discussions about romance which will help her get over her astonishment that ’45 percent of romance readers are college graduates and 50 percent work outside the home’. Actually, according to the RWA the percentage of readers who are graduates is much higher.

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