[vanderZwan]

What kind of romance novels? Because I've been told the really cheap ones follow such fixed patterns that publishers have checklists and databases to prevent accidentally repeating the same story too blatantly between novels.

Which, if true, would actually make them an interesting source for machine learning, now that I think about it.

[Animats]

Yes, they do. Harlequin Romances, especially. They produce about 85 new titles a month, and have trouble keeping the pipeline full.[1] They run Red Quill Writer's Workshops. They have an online commmunity. It's an organized production process.

[1] http://www.harlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=538