Today’s Links: Answering Questions: Jane Litte/Jen Frederick – So this is old news and not surprising, but I wanted people to see a couple good comments. Author Bree (who’s 1/2 of the writing team Kit Rocha) shares her hurt and… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2015
Links: Wednesday, March 25th
Today’s Links: Little Miss Crabby Pants Ruminates On Disclosure – In case you missed it, yesterday Jane Litte revealed that she’s been publishing New Adult romance as author Jen Frederick since May of 2013. The reception on Dear Author was… Read more »
Rivals in Paradise by Gwyneth Bolton
Everyone loves this book but me. Gwyneth Bolton‘s Rivals in Paradise is a highly rated Enemies-To-Lovers tale that I DNF’d at 22%. Cicely and Chase were college rivals jockeying for social position at the same small school. I’m pretty sure that he’s… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, March 17th
Today’s Links: Spilling Tea, Choking on Silence and Perhaps Burning Bridges – Suleikha Snyder vents her frustration with a white-run publishing industry and how easily it forgives and forgets sometimes. I’m not a bestselling author. I’m not a degree-holding academic… Read more »
Links: Saturday, March 14th
Today’s Links: Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66 – Oh man, this made me so sad! I was sobbing like a favorite relative had died. There isn’t enough space here to say how much I loved his… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, March 10th
Today’s Links: Character Catnip – This was a lovely post from Ana Canino Fluit about what she looks for in a book’s characters. I ended up thinking about that post for a long while. I was particularly struck by the… Read more »
#BlackWomenInRomance
Being Black every day makes Black History Month a little strange. I mean, we’re making history 365, baby. But I wanted to do something to commemorate the month in Romance Lit. There’s been a lot of talk about Diversity in… Read more »
The Book of Negroes E6
Aminata is home. As we all know home is a place you can never go again, things are about to radically change. Arriving in Sierra Leone, Aminata discovers the British are once again long on good intentions and short on… Read more »
Racism in Publishing: Stephanie Dray’s 50 Shades of Jefferson/Sally Hemings
Trigger Warnings: Mentions of rape, slavery, and racism. On the morning of March 4th, I noticed several black women in my Twitter timeline talking about a Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings BDSM erotica. At first it seemed it was just a rumor…. Read more »
The Book of Negroes E5
Canada has a reputation in America as being a traditional safe haven. Slaves, draft dodgers, whatever, Canada is known as the land of polite refuge. E5 is here to blow that up. Aminata arrives in Nova Scotia pregnant, alone and… Read more »
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