"Romance is, in fact, one of the biggest sectors of book publishing there is. It’s a workhorse of the publishing industry, worth over $1 billion per year, which makes it roughly the size of the mystery and sci-fi/fantasy genres combined."

"Yet, romance novels have been excluded from the mad stampede to adapt IP into movies and TV shows over the last 20 years. We’re on our third Spider-Man and 18th Batman in as many years, and only just now getting a major adaptation of a modern romance novel."

"It is long overdue that Hollywood begin to take romance novels seriously as adaptable material. They come in every flavor of genre—historical, comedic, dramatic, mystery/thriller, fantasy, paranormal—and many are part of sprawling story franchises that span many books."

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