G. asked Colleen Hoover:

I've recently stumbled upon a book of yours and have been making my way through the rest since then. You're my favorite romance writer. As a gay man, I must ask though, would you ever consider writing a mlm romance? That would be a dram come true for me!

Colleen Hoover Wow, thank you! And I would love, love, love to write a mlm novel. I haven't yet, simply because there are so many authors already writing authentic, diverse and lgbtq+ books that have been overlooked in the industry for years. This industry has always celebrated the straight white author, and being a straight white author, I see the problems in my taking up space where other authors are still being overlooked. And honestly, I feel like I've taken small missteps in the past with lgbtq+ side characters I've written, so I'm trying to educate myself on how to better represent these characters. If you follow my insta stories or my facebook author page, I try to share as many authors who are writing these stories as I can as a way to support these books/authors without taking up that space as a straight white woman. I hope that makes sense. My hope is that the prejudice in this industry will come to an end and we can all write whatever we want whenever we want, but I think we have a lot of work to do as an industry. It's looking much better now than it did just a few years ago. Seeing so many books written by diverse authors and lgbtq+ authors in the Goodreads Choice Awards these last couple of years has been incredible. Readers are definitely voicing what they want to see in the industry and the industry is listening, so we just need to keep that up and be even louder, so thank you for this question. <3

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