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Article: Romance Writers' Conference Opens in N.Y.
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- July 16, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
There are workshops on plot development and characterization, meetings
with publishers and editors. And, of course, there are tips on sexy
love scenes.
After all, this is a meeting of romance writers.
The Romance Writers of America's 23rd annual conference opened on
Wednesday, bringing together more than 2,000 published authors, want-
to-be-published writers, editors and others connected to a lucrative
section of the fiction market.
Despite being a target of derision and stereotypes over the years,
the romance genre generates more than $1 billion in sales each year
and has a market share that practitioners of other genres envy.
"There are ...