Citations:Romancelandia

Proper noun: "the sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels"

 * 2009, Sarah Wendell, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, page 125:
 * Paranormals had been on the fringes of Romancelandia almost since its inception but became huge business in the early 2000s.
 * 2012, Sue Grimshaw, "Loveswept: What is it?", The Raven Magazine, December 2012, page 5:
 * Of course we have our original Loveswept authors too – you bet, we birthed a few new ones that are taking romancelandia by storm, priced to sell at $2.99:
 * 2013, Sara Lindsey, A Rogue for All Seasons, unnumbered page:
 * Courtney Milan and Tessa Dare, I sure got lucky when they were handing out big sisters in Romancelandia!
 * 2015, Jeannie Moon, The Boyfriend List, unnumbered page:
 * I am so fortunate to have a wonderful group of readers, and my street team, The Moonpies, are some of the nicest people in Romancelandia.
 * 2015, Amy Andrews, quoted in "Sister pact sees delivery of number two novel", The Westerner (Australia), 3 March 2015, page 20:
 * "Collaborations aren't uncommon in 'romancelandia ' but still not really prevalent," she said.
 * 2016, Catherine M. Roach, Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, page 43:
 * I became a native of Romancelandia, writing “from the heart” (as the disgruntled woman at my talk said), from my dual but not dueling hearts, simultaneously crafting academic and fiction writing about falling in love.
 * 2019, Irene Davis, Anyone But the Earl, unnumbered page:
 * With this book and the process of bringing it to life, I feel that I have found my way home in Romancelandia.
 * 2019, Emma Lichtenstein, "'Evelyn Hugo' is your next must read", The Brandeis Hoot (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA), 15 March 2019, page 14:
 * Book Twitter loves it, Y.A. booktubers love it, fantasy booktube loves it, romancelandia, literary fiction booktube, mums on goodreads.
 * 2019, "Sadira Stone", Uncaged Book Reviews, November 2019, page 64:
 * Now she's a happy citizen of Romancelandia, penning contemporary romance and cozy mysteries from her home in Washington State.
 * 2020, Priscilla Oliveras, in All Write Already: Year of Your Book, page 217:
 * That's why it's invaluable to find that group of people in Romancelandia who will celebrate good news, hold you accountable when you need it, brainstorm an idea, and "get" you when it seems like non-writers in your close circle don't.
 * 2020, Inmaculada Pérez-Casal, "'There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?’': The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas", in Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture (eds. Laura Vivanco & María Ramos-García), page 156:
 * But if anything, it shows that for the romance novel to be truly revolutionary and inclusive, it is imperative that the different parts of Romancelandia continue to monitor the various representations of Otherness in these texts.
 * 2020, Ella Stainton, Best Laid Plaids, unnumbered page:
 * In Romancelandia, there has been an argument on the accuracy (read: allowability) of diverse characters in historical romance achieving their happily-ever-afters.
 * 2020, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist, unnumbered page:
 * RT was created and run by RT Book Reviews magazine, formerly known as Romantic Times, which was for many years the paper of record in Romancelandia.
 * 2020, Zoe York, Romance Your Plan: Taking Genre Fiction Marketing to the Next Level, unnumbered page:
 * For example, there are more corners of Romancelandia than any individual romance author or blogger or voracious reader could ever name.
 * 2020, The Happily Ever After review, Kirkus Reviews, 1 June 2020, page 95:
 * Intrigued by the romance genre, Steinberg investigated Romancelandia.
 * 2021, Jessica Peterson, Lessons in Love, unnumbered page:
 * There is so much really, really great stuff out there in Romancelandia, and it's no small thing that out of the thousands of books you could've bought, you bought mine.
 * 2021, Stephanie Appell, The Duke & I review, BookPage, January 2021, page 4:
 * I'm still pretty new to the wide and wonderful world of Romancelandia, though most of the books I read for pleasure in 2020 were romance novels.
 * 2021, Dan Nailen, "Pleasure Bites", Inlander, 11 February 2021, page 30:
 * The virtual realm has also proved surprisingly good for her life in Romancelandia, too.
 * 2021, Bombshell review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2021, page 40:
 * Another stunner from a Romancelandia favorite.
 * 2021, Jennifer Prokop, "The Romance Tropes of Ted Lasso", Kirkus Reviews, 1 September 2021, page 6:
 * Romance, we often say, is the genre of hope, so it's no surprise that romancelandia has embraced a show that aligns with our core values: When Ted Lasso leaps up and taps the "BELIEVE" sign hanging above his office door, he invites us to believe, too.

Proper noun: "the idealized fictional world of romance novels"

 * 2014, Damon Suede, RomCom Reader, September/October 2014, page 48:
 * These firefighters could not live in the Land of Schmoop. They could love each other, have deranged sex, even build a forever…but no way in this world were two adult men in the FDNY going to speak in the generic idiom of Romancelandia.
 * 2015, Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, unnumbered page:
 * In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.
 * 2016, Andrea Laurence, The CEO's Unexpected Child, page 2:
 * In real life, I hope these kind of IVF mistakes don't happen, but in Romancelandia, when it happens, there's always a sexy, single billionaire involved!
 * 2019, Teri Anne Stanley, Big Chance Cowboy, unnumbered page:
 * In Romancelandia, it was easy to miraculously find a couple of stray dogs for Adam and crew to train as service dogs, but in real life, it takes a lot of hard work, money, and time to find the right dog to do the amazing things a service animal can do.