Happily Ever After: All About Romance

If you look at the Good Reads most popular books list, romance (or books with a heavy love interest narrative) often add up to about 50% of the titles. Yet the genre is rarely shortlisted for the most literary awards and is largely only read by women. Authors Eden Summers and Melanie Saward join Elise Fletcher to talk about the rise of romantasy, the return of erotica and why “chick lit” and the art of writing romance for women is not taken more seriously.