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In “Love Between The Covers,” Emmy Award-Winning director Laurie Kahn turns her insightful eye towards another American pop culture phenomenon: the romance industry.
As an author and a reader, I can truly appreciate the extreme loyalty that is shown to the profession of writing throughout this one hundred and twenty minutes of creative dialogue and collective sharing that accentuates the impact of a self-evolving industry. Growing by leaps and bounds through a whirlwind of relationships that have developed through partnerships, networking and group dynamics, the predominately female field is a force to be reckoned with. Many have taken the Romance Novel industry for granted, yet the sheer number of sales within this multi-billion dollar industry indicates how serious the market is for this product.
Author Len Barot wrote at night and on weekends publishing three books a year while pursuing her fulltime career as a surgeon. Author Beverly Jenkins who began reading romance novels while her husband played tennis, turned her passion into a cause after realizing there wasn’t an outlet for African American people who looked like her. When she lost her husband to cancer in 2003, she began writing for herself and not for publications. She used paper and ink to express the fact that African Americans were beautiful. Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan developed a partnership where they bounced off one another’s ideas and mapped out strategies for plotting. Nora Roberts, Nicole Peeler, Karen Rose, Eloisa James and Mary Bly are all authors who share their stories of real woman who have a shared voice in allowing readers access to them individually and collectively to partake of their writings in order to capture the full spectrum of human nature and creativity in the world of Romance.
Throughout this documentary are several instances where several women’s passion for creating interesting stories about interesting women are triggering nationwide responses from other women who aren’t afraid to live their lives freely and vicariously through passion-filled readership. With truth, humor and sexuality all taking their contemporary roles in this eye-opening documentary, women across the world are hopelessly optimistic while experiencing the H.E.A. (Happily Ever After), one page at a time.
Available On Demand & Digital HD July 12th
