9 Surprising Facts About Bestselling Romance Novels

By: Craig | Posted on December 12, 2016

You may have read all the top romance books, but do you know the whole story?  Specifically, the “behind the scenes” anecdotes about your favorite bestselling romance novels, which may challenge your notions of what the author was thinking or how the story even came into being in the first place?  Consider these nine true but hard-to-believe stories that will make you cry, scream and break things all in the name of love. Twilight is actually a “better love story” than most because you’ve heard it before. Twilight may not be your first association for great literature, but Stephenie Meyer credits the classics for inspiring the work.  Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on all of your favorite required reading for high school—Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  In addition to classic literature, which eschewed sexual content much… Read More >