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Everything old is new again: An Open Letter to White, Straight, Able-bodied Romance Authors

Guest Post: An Open Letter on #diversity in #romance by guest Mari Anne Christie #WeNeedDiverseRomance #ownvoices #AuthorsofColor @mchristieauthor

On June 9, 2015, a fellow author asked if I would let her guest post one week. It’s a hot button topic, she said, but one that’s important, and needs to be brought out from behind the curtain and into the light.

I agreed. Wholeheartedly.

Now, approaching FOUR YEARS LATER, we’re no further along and, perhaps, at least in terms of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), we can see just how…

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[margiesmustreads-blog]

Books, Beer & BBQ. #ReadAllTheBooks #ReadDiverseRomance #ReadDiverseBooks #HolidayReads #WeNeedDiverseRomance #LibrarianLife #MyLitLife https://www.instagram.com/p/B5gq4u0hRnX/?igshid=qay2ebyx7nwz

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Got my Cafe Lechero and my copy of Between Now and Forever by my Austenite Bestie @peddlerofpassion This is my favorite title of all your books!! It’s perfect! When your girls write the best romance in the biz you read ALL NIGHT LONG! #ReadAllTheBooks #ReadDiverseRomance #WeNeedDiverseRomance #LibrarianLife https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LfIGBBAS1/?igshid=yf3n9quj9622

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First day of #RWA19 and I’m representing. #nativeromanceauthors #weneeddiverseromance #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Q_IgZgdvI/?igshid=zlctn7hkyinq

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Rainy Day Reads! Nine by Elizabeth Reyes!!! I love Elizabeth Reyes Books!!! I am so excited for this!! Yes, I read EVERYTHING!! #LatinaWriters #WeNeedDiverseBooks #WeNeedDiverseRomance #LibrarianLife #ReadAllTheBooks #RainyDayReads #BookBlogger #ElizabethReyes

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What to read after Gone With the Wind

What to read after Gone With the Wind - My challenge to myself right now is to take my own advice, read the five recommendations in this post, and to take it seriously when authors of color point speak out about racism in Romancelandia.

As I discussed in my first post on Gone With the Wind, Mitchell’s epic is not aging well (though here’s an astute piece on the Washington Post on why it’s still valuable to read the book). The mythic antebellum South is much more obviously fictional these days and more of us white folks are remembering/realizing that the splendid plantation life of the O’Haras and their neighbors was built on the…

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Cover Reveal: The Truth of Things by @tashalharrison

Cover Reveal: The Truth of Things by @tashalharrison

So excited to be doing my first cover reveal for Tasha L. Harrison! She’s been writing the kind of smut I’ve been missing in my life XD So I answered the call when she needed folks to spread her new cover to the world!

Without a moment’s hesitation….

“Where I come from, cops aren’t super heroes.”

Photojournalist and wedding photographer, Ava Marie Greene, doesn’t ever want to fall in love and…

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This is Not Why We Need Diverse Romance--but it Sure Helps

This is Not Why We Need Diverse Romance–but it Sure Helps

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

There are a lot of reasons why #WeNeedDiverseRomance. We here at Lady Smut have discussed aspects of diverse romance regularly, whether it’s Alexa Day discussing the racial- and feminist-line blurring TV show Pitch or her examination of interracial romance through history or Thien-Kim Lam’s talking about #OwnVoices during #ReadHotter month, or my own look at the women who…

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