More publishers are expanding their market for romance novels in e-book form.
Last September Random House's Ebury imprint launched Rouge- their digital romance list. Books went straight to digital rather than the traditional print copy first.
Now Piatkus is launching Entice, their digital romance list with some books moving to print versions later.
Other romance sub-genres will follow, so there will be something for everyone who loves 'romance'.
A number of popular romance novelists whose books are published in the US, have had UK editions with Piatkus- they're the larger size paperbacks you see in the Romance section shelves of Waterstones. Among them authors Stephanie Laurens (who was a Mills and Boon historical author for a number of years), Jayne Ann Krentz and Mary Balogh.
Besides reissues, it looks like it is going to be an influx of books by American authors, but just as it seems to be difficult for a UK romance author to get their books published in an American edition, it's probably just as difficult the other way round too.
The romance reader is certainly going to have a lot to choose from. But is it neccesarily going to be good for the unpublished romance writers in the UK?
It will be interesting to see what happens...
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...
Thursday 26 January 2012
Monday 23 January 2012
A Sweet Award...
I want to say a big thank you to Rosemary Gemmell who has awarded me the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award.
These awards are a great way of making new friends and learning a lot from other bloggers.
Now the picture alone makes me feel hungry-which is not good when I'm trying to lose weight...:-)
So before I pass the award on, I have to find 7 things you may not know about me...
1. When I was in the Brownies, I was an Imp. I only got to be the Sixer about three months before I had to go up to the Guides.
2. I have Maltese ancestry.
3. I once got lost on a day trip (as a child) and was found watching a Punch and Judy show by the Cutty Sark- the Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich.
4. I went on a camping holiday with my triplets when they were only 7-8 months old- this could explain why they don't like camping...:-)
5. As it's the start of the Chinese New Year- I'm a Pig/Boar.
6. My ears are not pierced- I wear clip earrings.
7. I was in the choir at Secondary School. Sadly I can no longer hit high notes...
Now here are my nominees for the Sweet Blog Award:
Scribbler Maxi's Musings
The Blogathon Challenge
StForce's Writing Blog
SK Adams
A Likely Story
These awards are a great way of making new friends and learning a lot from other bloggers.
Now the picture alone makes me feel hungry-which is not good when I'm trying to lose weight...:-)
So before I pass the award on, I have to find 7 things you may not know about me...
1. When I was in the Brownies, I was an Imp. I only got to be the Sixer about three months before I had to go up to the Guides.
2. I have Maltese ancestry.
3. I once got lost on a day trip (as a child) and was found watching a Punch and Judy show by the Cutty Sark- the Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich.
4. I went on a camping holiday with my triplets when they were only 7-8 months old- this could explain why they don't like camping...:-)
5. As it's the start of the Chinese New Year- I'm a Pig/Boar.
6. My ears are not pierced- I wear clip earrings.
7. I was in the choir at Secondary School. Sadly I can no longer hit high notes...
Now here are my nominees for the Sweet Blog Award:
Scribbler Maxi's Musings
The Blogathon Challenge
StForce's Writing Blog
SK Adams
A Likely Story
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