As we have noted in previous posts, it is difficult to collect in a lot of genres without a little help: there simply is too much published to keep up with it all, or to objectively assess what may or may not be worth your hard-earned currency. Also, the more you collect a specific genre, the more likely it is that you will want to know whether or not the book in hand is a true first edition, or the true first edition in book form, etc.
That is why we include in every post a slew of links, and why it is very much worth your while to make certain that you click on each and every one. These links take you to additional resources that are designed to make your collecting life a lot easier: things like bibliographies (both print & online), wikis, histories or overviews of a specific genre, etc. Any resources that do not fit into the "flow" of a particular post, we intend to save for a final additional resources post like this one....
The best one-volume historical overview that we've come across for the romance genre is Pamela Regis' A Natural History of the Romance Novel:
First published as a hardback by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2003, it was reprinted as a paperback in 2007.
Your very first online destination for all things romance fiction should be RomanceWiki. In addition to excellent bibliographies of print articles & books about romance fiction, you will find an equally excellent collection of online resources for the genre. And, as might be expected, you will find that RomanceWiki has a home on both Facebook and Twitter.
Tomorrow, we will turn from the most read genre in the United States to one of the least read and, most folks probably would agree, one of the most obscure. Notwithstanding which, those who collect this specialty are very, very devoted...the organization which represents this band of diehards calls it bibliomania....
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