Love Between The Covers

Love Between the Covers Trailer from Laurie Kahn on Vimeo.

Love Between the Covers is the first behind the scenes look at the billion-dollar romance fiction industry and the powerful, worldwide community of women behind it.

Love Between the Covers is the fascinating story of the vast, funny, and savvy community that has built a powerhouse industry sharing love stories. Romance fiction is sold in 34 languages on six continents, and the genre grosses more than a billion dollars a year — outselling mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy combined. Yet the millions of voracious women (and sometimes men) who read, write, and love romance novels have remained oddly invisible. Until now.

Filmed over three years, Love Between the Covers follows the lives of five published romance authors and one unpublished newbie as they build their businesses, find and lose loved ones, cope with a tsunami of change in publishing, and earn a living doing what they love—while empowering others to do the same.

Directed by Laurie Kahn

Featuring Nora Roberts, Eloisa James, Beverly Jenkins, Radclyffe, Celeste Bradley,
Susan Donovan and many others

Radclyffe is the acclaimed best-selling author of more than 45 published novels and 100 short stories. In 2004, she founded Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies. In 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat offering writing workshops to authors in all stages of their careers.

In her own words:

 “I began reading lesbian fiction at the age of twelve when I found a copy of Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker. That book and others like it convinced me that I was not alone, that there were other women who felt like I did. Our literature provides support and validation and very often, a lifeline, for members of our community throughout the world. I am proud and honored to be able to publish the many fine authors at Bold Strokes Books and to contribute in some small way to the words that celebrate the LGBTQ experience.”  – Radclyffe