What is romantic fiction?
Romantic fiction is the cross-genre genre. In the UK it appears under a variety of publishers labels including general fiction, womens fiction, historical, romantic comedy, chick lit, sagas even spooky as well as romance. These are among the UKs most commercially successful book categories. It embraces Jilly Coopers 900 pages as well as the 187 of Harlequin Mills & Boons category romances which are published every month; multi-generational sagas and Regency romps; deeply serious meditations on life and flippant twentysomethings metropolitan shenanigans. The engine of romantic fiction is love and relationships. The bodywork is infinitely variable.