Additional Notes

I write about genies.  Last year, my award-winning thriller, A Genie in the House of Saud: Zubis Rises, was released first as an ebook and later in paperback.  More recently, I’ve written a romance for Sapphire Blue Publishing called The Third Wish, which will be released in early June.  The romance publishing industry seems to be at the cutting edge of the digital revolution.  ePublishers are developing models for publishing that can provide a template for all other genres.  And why is the romance motivated to explore?  There are 1.375 billion reasons….

The area of romance fiction generated $1.375 billion in U.S. sales in 2007, a five percent increase over 2006, making it the biggest fiction publishing category for that year, according to Business of Consumer Book Publishing. The next largest market is sci-fi & fantasy, generating $495 million in revenue for the same year. A recent article in The New York Times reported that Harlequin Enterprises had fourth-quarter earnings in 2008 that were up 32 percent over the same period a year ago.

Here’s to romance!