Paul J told me
Remix
was on page 31 of today's Times; I rushed out and bought a copy, and here it is. The article is about sales of romance titles booming, because if you read on a Kindle, no one can tell whether your taste runs to Tolstoy or Katie Price.
Mark you, their definition of a romantic novel is pretty loose, as is Amazon's. I wouldn't call
Remix
a romance as such, and it's been near the top of the
Romance chart for months. Jane Austen's collected novels are there, and she said,
"I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter."
I'm dubious about one or two others;
Erotic Tales? Surely not. But it still gives me a buzz to see the cover of my novel in the Times.
Published on January 01, 2011 12:08