Good morning. It was a hare or maybe a small deer that prompted my own excursion into romantasy fiction. Stuck on the train home from London to Glasgow, delayed by animals on the track, I was in need of some diversion and found it aplenty in Sarah A Parker’s bestseller When the Moon Hatched, the tale of a female assassin whose fate intertwines – yes, sometimes quite spicily – with a grieving dragon rider.
Romantasy – a portmanteau of fantasy and romance – has become a commercial publishing phenomenon, the genre now dominating mainstream bestseller charts and powered by female authors and readers, the latter mainly under the age of 35.
