Two Deep-Dive Guides to Sapphic Romance in Italian

 If you've been following our guides to lesbian and sapphic romance here, you might not know we've also been building a parallel project for Italian readers, and for anyone curious how the genre looks outside English-language publishing.


We've just published two pieces walking through that project: a reader-facing guide that explains the method behind organizing romance F/F by trope rather than by generic popularity, and a more industry-facing piece aimed at authors, translators, and publishing professionals working in Italian romance.


The first piece lays out the whole approach and introduces all ten trope guides, from enemies to lovers to workplace romance, with officially translated titles, Italian self-published works, and novels originally written in Italian. If you want to see how trope-based curation works in a different language market, read it here:


Romanzi saffici in italiano: la guida completa per il tuo prossimo romance F/F


The second piece is written for people working in publishing: authors, translators, and anyone building sapphic romance content in Italian. It covers the same ten-guide structure with a more professional framing. Find it here:


Romance saffico in italiano: la nostra guida in 11 percorsi per orientarsi tra i trope


Both articles are written in Italian, but if you read the language, or know someone who does, they're worth passing along.

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