How Carley Fortune's buzzy romance books are making beloved Canadian locations seem ... sexy
BookNet Canada's research shows romance book sales in Canada jumped 54 per cent in 2022, and continue to climb. Most of the top-10 selling fiction books in Canada in 2023, according to BookNet Canada, were romance titles and #Romantasy, a #Genre that combines #Romance and fantasy. (Fortune's #MeetMeAtTheLake made their list, the only book by a Canadian author.)
All three of Fortune's books have been bestsellers, and in June last year, both of her previous titles were on the New York Times Bestsellers list at the same time.
In the #RomanceBook I #AmReading, "Undone" by Bryce Oakley, there's a running gag where one MC is trying to expand the other's name, Billie, into something more "formal". At one point she tries "Willoughby".
Wil---
---loughby
So now I'm gonna have that on loop in my brain for the next few hours.