The charm and aura of romance novels is too much for serious book lovers to ignore. However this is not to suggest that all novels that are published are read by everybody. Selling romance novels must have the “selling” ingredient to make the novels read and loved by the people who buy them. In order to notch up sales, these novels must be written skillfully, must have perfect situations, perfect characters and they should be juxtaposed perfectly. It is absolutely necessary to harp on this point: no one likes reading about immature characters who ramble on, or completely unbelievable situations where very often the protagonists are put.
Many large publishing houses have different novels by various authors which can be termed as selling romance novels. A perfect example is the Mills & Boon novels. Mills & Boon is the largest publishing house in the world specializing in romantic literature.
They have new titles each month and without doubt, they can be termed as some of the largest selling novels in the world. In fact from the Mills & Boon stable, we have quite a number of best sellers. Bride by Julia Garwood, Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, Cell by Stephen King, Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts, For One More Day by Mitch Albom, Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen, A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon and The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe are some of the recent well selling romance and action novels. For more on selling romance novels, please go through My Dear Valentine.
