Romance Writers of America Awards Book Downplaying Genocide themarysue.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from themarysue.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Meet the Authors of Spring s Hottest Sophomore Romances Posted by Sharon on May 1, 2021
Share
When it comes to the romance genre, second books can be a bit like second dates, can t they? You ve had that great initial meet-cute with a writer s first novel. Maybe you ve talked that book up to all your friends. You might even be counting down the days until their next title is finally available for an evening of binge-reading.
This spring, we re reacquainting you with some of romance s biggest new authors, who all have sophomore books publishing this season. Call it second
-glance romance, maybe?
Be sure to check out the new books from breakout stars like Emily Henry and Uzma Jalaluddin, and let these authors play matchmaker for you with their many romance recommendations!
The version of Regency England that viewers are accustomed to, both onscreen and in books, is one that excludes BIPOC and queer characters. Piper Huguley, a Black English professor and author of both contemporary and historical romance that features Black characters, believes that the genre’s popularity and homogeneity come from an unhealthy relationship between publishers and readers. “If a publisher only prints out a certain kind of thing, then the readers are only going to want that,” she says.
This leads publishers to believe “that’s what readers want,” adds Cat Sebastian, a white bisexual author who writes queer historical romance. Publishers then acquire similar books often not factoring in the success that many self-published authors are now finding with diverse historical romance.
April 12, 2021 at 4:03 PM
Shares19
Discretion is the better part of valor and you shouldn’t f k around lest you find out. These lessons probably should have guided Yale Law’s Amy Chua when she pushed back against the administration’s decision to remove her from a small 1L mentorship group.
Honestly, Chua’s “punishment” is almost too insignificant to note. If the administration is correct that the professor continued to bring students to her home after her husband was suspended but not fired over sexual harassment allegations, losing a token group discussion class is the least of what a responsible organization could do.
Bridgerton books are available from the Darien Library darientimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from darientimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.