Recently on twitter I engaged in a discussion with the lovely Leah Cypess regarding diversity in fiction. Before deciding to pursue my writing ambition I first had to read tons of books which is the #1 goal for all writers . When I concluded the novels I was left with one nagging thought many characters in fiction are white, and I had a bizarre conversation with a friend few months ago she had said if I write black characters in my novel it won’t sell. I don’t have the stats of how many books have majority of black or white characters , the 50 books I read last summer had mostly white characters. I think fiction should not have boundaries and its up to an author to make the choice what shade their character should be. Me on the other hand I believe the worlds I create will be more interesting with different shades of people.
Check out the lovely Leah Cypess book MISTWOOD and releasing May 2011 NIGHTSPELL
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Lucky 7 Meme Award Rules: 1. Go to page 77 of your current manuscript. 2. Go to line 7. 3. Copy the next 7 lines (sentences or paragraph...
-
I am so excited to introduce K.M. Jackson, who I met about a year ago via twitter there are many at... -
The easy part of being a writer is having fun making my characters go through various bleep situations and eventually achieve their obsta...
No comments:
Post a Comment