Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk about a book that sells maybe 100,000 copies, that happens to be very literary, whereas something like 'Crossfire' will sell 13 million copies in a single language and hardly get any mentions at all.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

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