No, I can’t blame them. There must be some reason that these books occupy 90%+ of the shelf space in every single store around here. Sucks for me though, because I am just looking for a good thriller or horror type of novel.
Among other things, most Romance "novelists" get paid next to nothing.
I know a lot of sf/f/h authors and it drives them nuts. The first question they get asked by publishers these days when they bring in a new book is “is there anyway we can market this as romance”, because that’s where the money is. That’s why we have Twilight and the various smutty vampire stuff, because it turns out romance readers are perfectly cool with mixing genres. Annoys me to no end though, reading a perfectly good horror book and all of a sudden everybody is trying to get in everybody else’s pants.