Black romance writers: The authors remain the same year after year, so if you have a newsletter, get the word out. Here’s the link to the poll.

For a moment I was inclined to agree that the reason “those people” don’t read AA romance is because of the stigma against the genre, but my involvement on a post by Clutch Magazine, entitled “Selling Ghetto” made me think otherwise. Based on the comments, the readers of this online magazine targeted to upscale black [...]

Last year, Justine Larbalestier sparked a controversy and movement in the blogosphere over her cover for the US edition of her book, Liar, when Bloomsbury made plans to ship the books to our shelves with a vaguely Asian female on the cover. The big hoopla was that the narrator was a young black woman. A [...]

According to the RWA (their previous stats were more detailed, so I’m including them), the average age for a romance reader is around 45, tends to live in the South or the Mid-West, is married, has children, has at least an undergraduate degree, and is a white-collar worker. The stats aren’t broken down by ethnicity, [...]

From the Romance Slam Jam Newsletter: Named after the co-founder of the Romance Slam Jam Conference, the Emma Awards is THE premier awards event for readers and authors of Black romance. Congratulations to the 2010 Emma Award finalists: Favorite Hero Quest Ramsey, A Lover’s Soul by AlTonya Washington Lawrence Hightower, Law of Desire by Gwyneth [...]