What this is
Romance has a contract with its reader that no other genre enforces so strictly: the central relationship is the plot, not the subplot, and it ends in a happily-ever-after or a happy-for-now. Break that and the reviews will say so within a week. Inside the contract there is enormous room — but the beats, the point-of-view discipline and the heat level all have to be deliberate. We edit and write to those conventions rather than around them.
What’s included
- Contemporary, historical, romantasy and romantic-suspense manuscripts
- Relationship-beat structure — meet, pull, wound, black moment, grovel, resolution
- Dual-POV discipline, so both leads carry an arc rather than one reacting
- Heat level set and held consistently, from closed-door to explicit
- Trope and comparable-title positioning, because that is how romance is shopped
- Historical period checking for language, dress, money and social rules
- Series planning for interconnected standalones and their recurring cast
How it runs
01Positioning
Subgenre, heat level and comparable titles agreed first — they decide the cover and the categories as much as the writing.
02Beat map
The relationship plotted against the emotional beats before any drafting.
03Draft or edit
Written or worked through with both leads tracked separately.
04Consistency pass
Heat, voice and period held steady across the whole book, and across a series.
Why it matters
Romance readers finish four books a week. They are not forgiving, and they are the most loyal audience in publishing.
Ready when you are
One conversation is usually enough to tell you whether this is the right next step.