The category remains a small piece of the market, according to BookScan - just 4 percent of the romance books sold in print last year. romance books sold at traditional retail outlets in 2021 - a 740 percent increase over a five-year period, and more than double the number sold in 2020. “Customers will come in and say, ‘I just want something that’s gay and happy.’ And I’m like, ‘I have ten different options for you.’”Īccording to NPD BookScan, which tracks the sales of most printed books sold in the United States, about 850,000 L.G.B.T.Q. “People want to see themselves,” said Laynie Rose Rizer, the assistant store manager at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C. characters at its center, and the main couple (or thruple!) will have a happy ending. romance novel, in fact, promises two things: It will have L.G.B.T.Q. Gay characters were once confined to niche markets, or to peripheral roles and tragic endings in the mainstream - a tendency that spawned the sardonic catchphrase “bury your gays.” No longer. In many ways, this echoes a broader cultural shift. They are prominently displayed at independent bookstores and on the shelves at Walmart, and advertised on New York City subway platforms.Īnd when Harper’s book, “Payback’s a Witch,” was published last fall by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, it became a best seller. Now, they are coming from the biggest publishers in the industry. romance novels have been around for decades, but they have been a quiet presence, almost entirely self-published or put out by small niche presses, and often shelved separately from other romances in bookstores. “People really wanted these queer witches.”
“It was completely surreal to me,” Harper said. Stunned, really: The book was a romance about two women.
įor years, Lana Popovic Harper wrote novels for a pittance she described as “jars of pennies.” So when her new project drew bids from seven publishers, she was thrilled.
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