Harlequin American Romance
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Length: 55,000—60,000 words
Senior Editor: Kathleen Scheibling
Associate Editor: Johanna Raisanen
Editorial Assistant: Laura Barth
Editorial Office: Toronto, Canada
American Romance features heartwarming romances with strong family elements. These are stories about the pursuit of love, marriage and family in America today.
A sense of family and community is essential. Secondary characters—such as parents, grandparents, siblings or other relatives, good friends or neighbors—support the hero and heroine in their quest for love, but never overshadow the primary romance.
Books must have a distinctly American setting. American Romance favors western settings—from the wide-open ranches of Texas and Wyoming to the small towns of Montana and Oklahoma, to big cities such as Dallas and Phoenix—but our books can be set anywhere in the USA.
Most important is a focus on romance and a clear sense of romantic conflict between the hero and the heroine. There must be realistic obstacles that keep them apart, and overcoming these obstacles is what leads them to a happily ever after.
American Romances can vary in tone, from sweet to humorous to intensely emotional. But there must always be enough drama and tension to keep the pages turning—after all, what could be more dramatic than family?
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