MY POV on RWA
Laura’s note: To frame what Nora discusses here, please refer to this post on All About Romance. The author does an excellent job of laying out the timeline to the current situation. To clarify: I’m not on Twitter. I haven’t been a member of Romance Writers Of America for several years. Those are both personal … Continue reading MY POV on RWA
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Thank you Nora Roberts! This makes me glad I've spent so much money on your books over the years. :)
I started reading your books years ago, at the suggestion of a friend of mine who now writes romance novels, mostly supernatural. I am a huge fan, re-read the In Death books and several of the trilogies/stand-alones often.
It's sad and difficult to acknowledge the years and years in which so many of us have marginalized POC, the differently-abled, the differently-gendered. It's not going to get swept away in just a year or two; and it's going to be very painful, because so many of us Anglos don't think we're racist/ableist/anti-LGBT-etc. It's ingrained so deeply.
But I honor you, and other authors who are stepping up, making real efforts to be inclusive. The sign over the bullpen door in the In Death novels (after Delusion?), is great, and funny, too.
This is a book near the top of my TBR Mountain. Maybe you haven't heard about it; some of my Ravelry (knitting web-community) have recommended it. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Thank you, again.