Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success by Larson, Christine M.

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditions As writers, musicians, online content creators,...
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Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success by Larson, Christine M.

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

$113.05

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

$113.05
Author: Christine M. Larson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditions

As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example--and a cautionary tale--about self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing, Christine Larson traces the forty-year history of Romancelandia, a sprawling network of romance authors, readers, editors, and others, who formed a unique community based on openness and collective support. Empowered by solidarity, American romance writers--once disparaged literary outcasts--became digital publishing's most innovative and successful authors. Meanwhile, a new surge of social media activism called attention to Romancelandia's historic exclusion of romance authors of color and LGBTQ+ writers, forcing a long-overdue cultural reckoning.

Drawing on the largest-known survey of any literary genre as well as interviews and archival research, Larson shows how romance writers became the only authors in America to make money from the rise of ebooks--increasing their median income by 73 percent while other authors' plunged by 40 percent. The success of romance writers, Larson argues, demonstrates the power of alternative forms of organizing influenced by gendered working patterns. It also shows how networks of relationships can amplify--or mute--certain voices.

Romancelandia's experience, Larson says, offers crucial lessons about solidarity for creators and other isolated workers in an increasingly risky employment world. Romancelandia's rise and near-meltdown shows that gaining fair treatment from platforms depends on creator solidarity--but creator solidarity, in turn, depends on fair treatment of all members.

Author: Christine M. Larson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06/04/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691217406


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2024
Foreword 04/25/2024

About the Author
Christine Larson is assistant professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her writing has appeared frequently in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other national outlets, as well as in such scholarly journals as Information Communication and Society and Media, Culture & Society. She is the coauthor of Influence: How Women's Economic Power Will Change Our World for the Better.

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