Five facts about the real mills & boon
Five facts about the real mills & boon
1. Gerald Mills and Charles Boon are the founders of the Mills & Boon publishing house. They started working out of offices in Covent Garden, London, in 1908.
2. Today, Mills & Boon Publishing, in collaboration with Harlequin Books, publishes nine types of romance novels.u00a0 These include history (knights or scruffy soldiers and princesses), medical (emergency room romance), blaze and desire (action-packed), special moments (family stories with pets, kids etc), intrigue (cops and robbers, spies) and paranormal (vampires, witches and more).
3. The Mills & Boon website reveals that the shelf life of a single new title is a month. Makes sense because no one really re-reads a romance novel.
4. Apparently, one M & B novel sells every three seconds in the UK.
5. The publishing house releases 70 titles every month, of which 50 are brand new, these are translated into 26 different languages and released in over 109 countries.
