In my new series running into October, I am discussing unpopular opinions I’ve had about my literary life.

I’ve made them into 3rd person, because I felt perhaps this is a lot of general opinions other than just mine. I like to say the things other people are afraid to speak about but these are opinions I’ve had.

Let me know what you feel about it.

TThe publishing industry is currently celebrating the “rise” of dark romance featuring Black women protagonists as though it’s a new trend they discovered. Sylvia has been writing Black women at the center of complicated, dangerous, morally gray love stories since 1999 — independently, in Detroit, without a major publishing deal or a marketing budget. The trend didn’t create this space. Authors like Sylvia built it without permission and without recognition, and the industry is now profiting from a lane that was never theirs to open.

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