![]() ![]() If publishers and advertising giants and booksellers and multi-media conglomerate-owning singularities and trade organizations can’t get this diverse books thing right, then readers and writers know it is up to us to get the good stuff in as many hands and on as many shelves as possible.Įnter romance author, Adriana Herrera. The book reading community is in need of some #OwnVoices wins. ![]() The only thing uglier than the immigrant erasure was the publisher’s response to the backlash.īut the New Year began with the ugly implosion of Romance Writers of America due to its racist, exclusionary practices that has led to canceling the RITAs and much more. That of course came on the heels of a huge publishing scandal involving a non-Latina author writing an immigration story from the perspective of a Mexican family to the tune of a seven-figure advance. Just this week, there was the recent news that Barnes and Noble was releasing diverse book covers for classic (and very white) young adult novels that not only don’t have diverse authors, but were chosen by an AI that scanned classics for main characters that weren’t EXPLICITLY described as white. ![]()
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