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  • Time Magazine International Edition

    How to write a romance novel in 2021

    Jul 09, 2021 4 minutes
    By Annabel Gutterman
    ILLUSTRATIONS BY WESLEY ALLSBROOK FOR TIME

    LINGERING TOUCHES AND STOLEN GLANCES, JAW-dropping revelations and long-awaited reunions—the pleasures of romance novels abound. Yet for so long, one of the most popular (and lucrative) genres in publishing has centered stories by, for and about a homogeneous set of women, bolstering the stereotype of straight white women as the romantic ideal and cementing the economic power of writers who share that identity.

    But despite long-standing systemic inequities, a growing set of authors has recently found success with swoony love stories featuring characters from backgrounds that reflect the diversity of the world we live in. Writers like Jasmine Guillory, who is about to publish her sixth novel in less than four

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