Black Romance Podcast

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 for...

20 Okt 202046min

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 Th...

13 Okt 20201h 20min

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 fem...

6 Okt 202046min

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...

29 Sep 202027min

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...

22 Sep 20201h 16min

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 r...

15 Sep 202046min

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.

8 Sep 202055min

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 Son...

1 Sep 202050min