Comments on: RACE SHOULDN’T MATTER…RIGHT? http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/ The Official Website of LaConnie Taylor-Jones Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Juanita M http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4965 Juanita M Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:52:48 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4965 Race Should not matter!! Before AA authors were published so extensively, I read numerous Caucasian authors and enjoyed them. However, when I discovered Brenda Jackson, Frances Ray,et al, I was so happy to find someone that thought like me, looked like me and someone that shared my vision as a black woman, I couldn't buy their books fast enough. To shorten this comment, thank you for forging on inspite of the dissension and difficulties you all encounter. We have your back and will support always. I am looking forward to reading your new release in March. Keep Writing!!!! Race Should not matter!! Before AA authors were published so extensively, I read numerous Caucasian authors and enjoyed them. However, when I discovered Brenda Jackson, Frances Ray,et al, I was so happy to find someone that thought like me, looked like me and someone that shared my vision as a black woman, I couldn’t buy their books fast enough. To shorten this comment, thank you for forging on inspite of the dissension and difficulties you all encounter. We have your back and will support always. I am looking forward to reading your new release in March. Keep Writing!!!!

]]> By: LaTessa http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4467 LaTessa Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:22:06 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4467 Great post LaConnie. After reading Gwyneth Bolton's author about AA romance, it really got me to thinking. Since then, I've done a couple of post about AA romance's place in the genre, both on my site, and while I guest blogged on Petit Fours & Hot Tamales. You bring up a different aspect of this discussion from a pub'd author's standpoint. I hope the world soon comes to understand that good work is good work, regardless of the author's race, or that character's race. Great post LaConnie.

After reading Gwyneth Bolton’s author about AA romance, it really got me to thinking. Since then, I’ve done a couple of post about AA romance’s place in the genre, both on my site, and while I guest blogged on Petit Fours & Hot Tamales.

You bring up a different aspect of this discussion from a pub’d author’s standpoint. I hope the world soon comes to understand that good work is good work, regardless of the author’s race, or that character’s race.

]]> By: Evelyn Palfrey http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4330 Evelyn Palfrey Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:13:26 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4330 Great post, LaConnie. One statement, however, is not totally accurate. ALL authors, not just AA ones, are catatogorized and scrutinized based on profitability. Publishers are in the business to make a profit--not deliver a message. They are not in the business of publishing good stories, but stories that they can sell. Books are a product to them--like shoes and purses. Great post, LaConnie. One statement, however, is not totally accurate. ALL authors, not just AA ones, are catatogorized and scrutinized based on profitability. Publishers are in the business to make a profit–not deliver a message. They are not in the business of publishing good stories, but stories that they can sell. Books are a product to them–like shoes and purses.

]]> By: Bettye Griffin http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4326 Bettye Griffin Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:04:24 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4326 Marketing plans? Book tours? Huh? Marketing plans? Book tours? Huh?

]]> By: Monica Jackson http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4314 Monica Jackson Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:37:42 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4314 This is a wonderful post. Race shouldn't matter, but if you're black, sometimes it seems as if that's all that matters. Is this the only way we are going to get read (only marketed to our own and only what others think we want to read as a monolithic group)? It's not a bad thing, but it is a limiting one. See the PW cover and article on AA (segregated by blacks only) books? This is a wonderful post. Race shouldn’t matter, but if you’re black, sometimes it seems as if that’s all that matters.

Is this the only way we are going to get read (only marketed to our own and only what others think we want to read as a monolithic group)? It’s not a bad thing, but it is a limiting one.

See the PW cover and article on AA (segregated by blacks only) books?

]]> By: Janice http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/2009/12/15/race-shouldn%e2%80%99t-matter%e2%80%a6right/comment-page-1/#comment-4312 Janice Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:12:37 +0000 http://www.laconnietaylorjones.com/?p=811#comment-4312 Enjoyed reading this LaConnie. I'am not an author but I have heard other authors voice the same thing. I just find it amazing that in the year 2009, publishers, agent and editors still have this mind-set. If it's a good story nothing else should matter! No Race shouldn't matter! Enjoyed reading this LaConnie.

I’am not an author but I have heard other authors voice the same thing.

I just find it amazing that in the year 2009, publishers, agent and editors still have this mind-set.

If it’s a good story nothing else should matter!

No Race shouldn’t matter!

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