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    The price of love

    Feb 03, 2022 6 minutes

    Roses are red, violets are blue, with love all around, why not write romance, too? Mills and Boon publish over 700 books a year and claim that in the UK alone, they sell a book every ten seconds. With such a voracious readership and demand for new material, writing romance could make great sense for your writing business. But how easy is it to break into this market, and what’s the business case for writing romance?

    Kate Walker’s first romance, The Chalk Line, was published in December 1984. Since then, she’s written over 65 titles, along with her 12 Point Guide to Writing Romance. She believes writers misunderstand the romance market.

    ‘There is the misconception that it’s so easy,’ she says. ‘You just “churn the books out” and “they are all the same,” and then you have no problem getting them published because there is no editorial criticism or questions. They are just published straight

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