Sisters Leah and Bea Koch raised $91,000 on Kickstarter to fund a store for fans of everything from 'Fifty Shades' to Harlequin to LGBTQ stories. By Destiny Jackson The Ripped Bodice, which opens ...

It's a match made in, well, a romance novel. Bea and Leah Koch, the sister duo who founded and own Los Angeles' romance bookstore The Ripped Bodice, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures ...

The beloved teen book-turned-romantic comedy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” opens with its main character in a red gown staring across a field at her beau in a tussled white shirt. The ...

Chicago natives Bea and Leah Koch, sisters who opened the shop on March 4, 2016, after raising more than $90,000 on Kickstarter, conceived of the Ripped Bodice as a safe, sex-positive, feminist space ...

Leah and Bea Koch, co-owners of The Ripped Bodice Bookstore, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures TV to develop projects based on their close relationship with romance novel authors and ...

According to a new study conducted by romance novel bookstore The Ripped Bodice, romance novels have a major diversity problem. Booksellers Leah and Bea Koch examined the catalogs for 20 publishers, ...

Leah and Bea Koch, 25 and 28 years old, are lifelong romance readers. In 2015, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to open a romance-only bookstore. In four months, they raised $90,000 and were ready ...

Romance is a billion-dollar industry. In 2016 these novels made up 23% of the overall fiction market, and they consistently outperform all other genres. But while we’ve reclaimed the rom-com in film, ...

Bea and Leah Koch got hooked on romance novels early. “I had been reading a lot of historical fiction, a lot of sci-fi fantasy stuff, and romance is just really what grabbed me and never let me go,” ...