Help for a confused author

[Florence]

Hi,
I've been checking my sales statistics. Rather my non-sales statistics because I put everything out there for free to see which of my published stories people read when they can read anything they choose without having to pick and choose which to buy. (Exception: Amazon won't publish anything for free unless I jump through more hoops than I can handle.)
Conclusion of my research? I write clean, sci-fi romance. And this after being told by an editor at a major romance publishing house that I DO NOT write romance!
Maybe clean romances are somehow different from other romances? Less initimate man-woman stuff and more story? Something?
Soooo..... my next book will be a clean sci-fi romance instead of the dystopian apocalyptic story with a small, clean romance in it that I've been crafting.
I'm finding that this is a huge change requiring a major mental shift on my part.
I've shifted genres before when the situation warranted but I have a question and this group is the place to ask.....
Does anyone look for clean sci-fi romance? Does anyone actually read clean sci-fi romance? Is clean sci-fi romance a sub-genre of sci-fi romance?
Or am I whistling in the dark and the sales statistics are just an anomaly?
Florence Witkop
http://FlorenceWitkop.com

[Tasha]

I have no idea if it's a sub genre, but I LOVE sci-fi and romance, so you put the two together and I am one happy camper. Additionally, I want the love story to be HUGE, and swoony, but also squeaky clean. I want my protagonists to be madly in love and to have a physical relationship (because hello, that is a healthy, normal part of life). I just don't want the gory details of their behind closed doors activities and I want them in a fully committed relationship (ahm...married or whatever they're sci-fi cultural equivalent is). But, that is my kind of romance!!! If you write that, I'll read it!

[Florence]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's good to know people like what I write. Okay, I go easy on the physical stuff but it's there. Kind of. If you want.... no pressure.... I do have one clean sci-fi romance out there that's free on Smashwords. (.99 on Amazon, darn it anyway) It's Earth Legend. Check it out if you wish and let me know if it's what you consider clean sci-fi romance.