Trailer for Love Between the Covers which will be screening at the Hot Docs Film Festival.
Move over Grisham and King, it turns out that the true titans of publishing are women. Romance fiction outsells all other genres of writing—from crime to science fiction—combined. Yet its largely female authors and readers are dismissed as hobbyists or fantasists. But if women-centric stories written by best-selling women writers are carrying the costs for all other publishing, where is the due respect? This funny and inspiring look into a billion-dollar industry turns up the trailblazers who have not only found fortunes and fulfillment in romance, but who are also at the front lines of the biggest power shift in publishing. Creating online empires and inventing new markets are authors like Beverly Jenkins, a pioneer of African American romance, Len Barot (aka Radclyffe, L.L. Raand), a surgeon and lesbian-romance legend who started her own publishing house, and the incomparable Nora Roberts. Loosen your corsets, let your tresses down and open your eyes to a powerful female world of big business and even bigger talent.