by imperialpurple | Jan 17, 2020 | Books
My previous post about black authors you should read was so damn popular I decided it was well pastime to do another book post. I used to read nothing but white romance novels, to be fair when I started reading Romance in 2002, to find a BIPOC (Black Indigenous Person...
by imperialpurple | Oct 11, 2019 | Ramblings, Writing
It’s 2019 and most books are still white. Don’t believe me? Well, check out this study in The 2018 State of Diversity in Romance Publishing study: only 7.7% of Romance Authors are people of colour. To make it worse,% 79 of the overall publishing industry...
by imperialpurple | Aug 30, 2019 | Books
When we were little girls, we often dreamed of being a princess. Our mothers at night would read us fairy tales of faraway lands, all the while we would dream of the day where Prince charming would ride in on his white horse and rescue us from our humdrum existence....