DID NOT FINISH: 45%

The tone didn't work for me - it felt like it was aimed at someone who wants to write a book but doesn't actually read books and hasn't written anything, even for themselves. A lot of the romance examples were old-school ick ("the hero is secretly part Native American and knows that no respectable woman will have him" - are you listening to yourself? hint, you shouldn't write that but the reason you shouldn't write that is not that it's "too much drama") and all of the examples/discussions were clearly written long, long before self-publishing was a thing. Maybe this will work for others, but for me it felt too analytical and at the same time too clueless as to the modern world.