This style helped authors reach beyond the core romance readership, drawing in “people that may have been a little intimidated by, let’s say, a photograph of a shirtless man, or like, really ...

Ace Magazines Painted Covers, 1950-1951. Beyond its comics and pulps, Ace became best known ad most succesful as a paperback publisher, with the legendary genre imprint Ace Books.

By the late 1980s, essentially every cover of the magazine featured a clinch from an upcoming book. Owner Kathryn Falk went all-in on covers, cover models, and made Fabio into a niche celebrity.

Roni Loren has been writing romance since 2012, but her next book Yes & I Love You, which hits shelves March 2, 2021, marks a new chapter for the author.After penning erotic romance and an angsty ...

Heartthrobs like Reis have long been a staple on romance covers.“Within the first year or two that I was a designer, they were like, ‘Hey, let’s put a guy on the cover alone and see what ...

The Pudding takes a look at 1,400 romance novels from 2011 to 2023 to see how things have shifted. From chiseled abs to discrete illustrations: How romance covers have changed over time ...

Floribama Shore’s Gus Smyrnios has a secret: he moonlights as a romance novel model — see the covers and read Us Weekly’s exclusive interview ...

Complete Love Magazine V27#3 (Ace, 1952) cover by Alice Kirkpatrick. About Kirkpatrick, fellow artist Lou Cameron has been quoted as saying, "Alice Kirkpatrick was one of the finest romance ...

However, perhaps Love Between the Covers’ most powerful argument has to do with the “acceptability” of romance versus other happily ever after stories.Using action movies as its example, the ...

Romance novels and the people who write and read them tend to get a bad reputation, with the public image of the genre dominated by heaving bosoms, ripped bodices and Fabio, said Melonie Johnson, s… ...