The genre was first popularized in the U.K. during this era, with books like Barbara Stanton’s 1943 wartime romance W.A.A.F. Into Wife, the cover of which featured a woman in uniform being ...

Romance readers may not know Jason Baca by name, but as the man who's modeled for more than 600 covers across all styles and genres of romance, they definitely know his face — and he's had the ...

Victor Gadino, artist: Almost all the romance-novel covers for all the publishers in New York were done by this one guy named Robert Osonitsch. He had a studio on Fourth Avenue and 12th Street.

The Pudding takes a look at 1,400 romance novels from 2011 to 2023 to see how things have shifted.