For author Margo Hendricks, Romance was a way to explore the very real history of class, race and power in Elizabethan England. For Tara L. Roi, it was a place where she could talk about climate change, and convince readers to listen. Kristal Marquis and Adriana Herrera just wanted to read about people who looked like them—and realized they would have to literally write the book.
In the process, they liberated the genre from its box—and made space for writers, readers and stories whose voices have always existed, but often been gaslit, whitewashed, and asked to edit themselves out of the narrative. Read article
Monday, September 11, 2023