Today’s Links: Reader Assistance Request: Bad Sex Bingo – So this is a week old and all, but I thought the post and comments were good for a chuckle. My pet peeves are “her core” (for a vagina), “his manhood”… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Diversity in Fiction
Links: Tuesday, April 21st
Today’s Links: History in Color: A Black American Romance Roundtable – Alyssa Cole hosted a roundtable with romance authors on the Toast. Although much has changed over the years in historical romance, including the rise of heroines who are more… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, April 14th
Today’s Links: 2014 Reviewers’ Choice and Career Achievement Winners – Award season is here, so let’s start off with the list of RT Award winners. If you scroll down a ways, you’ll see LITM’s own Rebekah won for Best Novella… Read more »
Links: Saturday, April 4th
Today’s Links: Self-Portrait Of The Artist As Ungrateful Black Writer – Saeed Jones shares his experiences as the rare black writer in an overwhelmingly white literary establishment. Heartbreaking and enraging at the same time. By the time my colleague and… Read more »
Links: Wednesday, April 1st
Today’s Links: Autism on the Page: An Introduction – Disability in Kid Lit is hosting an autism event this month and it’s worth bookmarking their site, even if you don’t read MG/YA fiction. They’re really good about finding people who… Read more »
Links: Monday, March 30th
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 »
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 »
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: 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 »
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