“And romance novels can be as diverse as the world we see around us. This is especially important in February because of the focus on love and Black history—two topics that were seldom at the ...

1981) is one of today’s most popular Black romance novel authors ... that spanned more than three decades, Hurston published four novels, two folklore books, an autobiography, short stories ...

Instead, she prioritizes a more progressive view to show how Black women find healing for themselves on their love journeys. “In most romance novels, we have kind of an idea of what the Happily ...

The novel, “Sparrow and Vine” by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books ... Alter A forthcoming romance novel by the writer Sophie Lark was pulled by her publisher after drawing ...