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    Black Romance Podcast

    The Black Romance Podcast features weekly conversations with Black writers, editors, and scholars of historical and contemporary popular romance fiction. Julie Moody-Freeman and guests talk about a range of experiences: their difficulties trying to publish love stories with Black characters; their favorite books; writing and teaching about black romance fiction; traditional vs self-publishing; publishing queer romance fiction; and their recently released books.

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    Elysabeth Grace/Margo Hendricks Oct 20, 2020
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    Margo Hendricks who writes romance novels as Elysabeth Grace joins me to close out Season one of the Black Romance Podcast. We discuss her contemporary and paranormal romance novels as well as our forthcoming editorial collaboration on a special issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, which will focus on Black Romance. This issue will include all of the transcripts from my interviews on Season one of the podcast along with essays from several well-known romance writers and scholars.

    Margo Hendricks is University of California emerita professor of English literature. As Margo Hendricks, she is the co-editor of Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period, with Patricia Parker, and the author of many journal articles. Her current works in progress are an academic memoir and Heliodorus' Daughters: Black Women and the Romance Industry.

    Writing as Elysabeth Grace she has a contemporary novel titled Your Heart Only and a four-book paranormal series titled Daughters of Saria, which includes the books:

    Fate's Match

    Fate's Kiss

    Fate's Consort

    And the forthcoming Lilith's Heart.

    Rochelle Alers Oct 13, 2020
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    Rochelle Alers and I talked about a number of topics: her experiences writing and publishing romance in the 1980's; and we talked about books and characters from her Hideaway, Cavanaugh Island, and The Innkeepers series. She also discussed her work with Vivian Stephens on the Women Writers of Color group, her experiences with RWA, and with Black women editors and writers who she believes have contributed to her success.

    Gwendolyn Pough/Gwyneth Bolton Oct 06, 2020
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    This week Gwendolyn Pough (writing as Gwyneth Bolton) and I discuss her popular romance fiction Make It Last Forever and Sweet Sensation. We also discuss whether her academic publications on Black feminism and Hip-Hop culture influence her romance fiction.

    Rebekah Weatherspoon Sep 29, 2020
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    Rebekah Weatherspoon discusses the importance of depicting Black women in her books, writing inclusive novels that feature queer love stories with Black characters, and her experiences self-publishing and publishing with Dafina, a traditional press.

    Alyssa Cole Sep 22, 2020
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    This week Alyssa Cole and I discuss how her precocious childhood reading habits may have influenced her current romance publications. Cole also reveals how her historical and contemporary romance like Let it Shine, An Extraordinary Union, An Unconditional Freedom, A Princess in Theory, and A Duke by Default work through, try to understand, and trouble particular aspects of U.S. culture, history, and politics.

    Vivian Stephens-Part two Sep 15, 2020
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    This week's conversation with Vivian Stephens focuses on several topics: her work at Dell; her transition as editor from Dell to Harlequin; Harlequin's release of her; her subsequent work with Black romance writers; marketing an all-Black line of Vivian Stephens romance; and her own publication Second Act.

    Vivian Stephens-Part one Sep 08, 2020
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    In part one of my interview with Vivian Stephens, she discusses her experiences as an editor at Dell Publishing, and she talks about her role in the founding of The Romance Writers of America.

    Beverly Jenkins Sep 01, 2020
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    In this conversation, Beverly Jenkins and I talk about her early experiences as a Black woman writing and trying to publish her historical romance featuring Black characters. We also discuss Night Song, her debut novel, Indigo, Jewel, and Forbidden, her historical novels set in the late 1800's.

    Brenda Jackson-Part two Aug 25, 2020
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    Having published over one hundred and twenty-five novels, Jackson talks about the importance of how Blackness is represented in media and popular culture and about how this led her into filmmaking.

    Brenda Jackson-Part one Aug 25, 2020
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    New York Times best-selling writer Brenda Jackson recounts the challenges she faced publishing romance fiction with black characters in the 1980's and why she negotiated her own contract to publish her first novel in 1995.

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