It’s Wednesday! Are you ready for the weekend yet? I know I am. I have so much cleaning and unpacking to do (I was at a wedding last weekend) and I just haven’t been able to get to it this week. Hopefully, you have better weekend plans on the horizon. … Sarah: Tomorrow, 13 September at around 11am ET, NPR/WAMU’s 1A is doing a segment on romance, with Alisha Rai, Alexandra Alter from the Times, … Continue reading Links: Speeches, Podcasts, & Magic
Grab a drink and have a seat, because here come some compelling and powerful words and numbers. Bea and Leah Koch of The Ripped Bodice have compiled an inaugural report on the State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing. From their press release: In their first year and a half in business, the Kochs grew increasingly aware of the limited number of options for customers looking for traditionally published books written by people of color. … Continue reading The Ripped Bodice Report on Racial Diversity in Romance
Happy Wednesday! If you can’t tell by the title, all the links today have something to do with the Wonder Woman movie. We were sharing so many awesome things on our Slack chat, I figured we should just put them all together this week! … HelloGiggles has a bunch of photos of the Amazonian actresses. The pictures are so sweet and fun, and the women look so strong! The Amazon warriors were comprised of stunt-women, boxers, fighters, … Continue reading Links: All Things Wonder Woman
Sarah: I had a long conversation via email with Asha Ganesan that culminated in her writing this guest post that addresses her desire for more inclusive representation in historical romance and supports her argument with data and external sources. I just heard you perk up in your chairs, didn’t it? Oh, yes, data! Welcome, Asha, and thank you for being part of our community. … This thoughtful guest post comes from Asha Ganesan. Asha is a social psychology Ph.D … Continue reading Guest Post: The Diversity Thorn – Ethnic Identity, History, and Historical Romance
The Fifth Season blew my entire weekend. I had plans. I was supposed to, at least at some point, get out of bed and take a shower. Instead I stayed in my blanket fort and devoured this book. The most I managed to accomplish was feeding the cat and tweeting about how much I loved this novel. This was my first Jemisin, but lordy, it will not be my last. Not least of which because I … Continue reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
On this edition of Lightning Reviews, we have a book that’s part history, part cookbook. We also have a super cool fantasy novel that takes inspiration from Asian folklore. Plus, a contemporary romance with the trope of a one night stand with a man who turns out to be the heroine’s new boss
Happy Hump Day, everyone! Sometimes, you need a few things to get you through the rest of the week. Hopefully, these links will help! Reader Bethany sent us a link to an Ideas episode, a Canadian podcast/radio show, on romantic love in literature and how it relates to consent. It has some great discussion with some awesome women: PhD student Elissa Gurman draws out the roots of a very powerful narrative, the Crazy Woman In Love, as … Continue reading Links: Love, WoC Romances, & Marginalia
