Its legendary fleet of romance writers have been ... popular romantic novel". Fun pub facts: in the past 50 years, Mills & Boon characters have undergone 10,325 weddings, 29,500 kisses and 35,250 ...

They’d even enlisted a few Aussie authors whose local inspiration produced books which spoke to an international readership. “The first ever Australian romance Mills & Boon published was ...

Over time, romance publishers like Mills and Boon in the U.K. and Harlequin in North America perfected what became the genre’s format—publishing books with similar covers, page counts and ...