CategoryAnnouncements

General announcements from Romance Sparks Joy.

Romance Report
Special Edition October 1, 2019

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Another week, another poorly-researched think piece on supposed trailblazers for Black romance authors. We won’t link to the piece because it’s mostly a rehash of all the others, which are rehashes of press releases. We’d rather focus on the many other Black voices in romance in this mini mid-week thread. First of all, Alyssa gets straight to the point. There is no nice way to...

Romance Report
September 23-29, 2019

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One day in Romancelandia lasts approximately 1.3 Earth years. Now imagine a week. To help you keep up, we’ve gone through the tweets about last week’s highs (and lows) of representation in romance to bring you our Weekly Romance Update. These are tweets from or about BIPOC, LGBTQIAP+, and/or otherwise underrepresented writers, reviewers, and list curators. If you don’t already...

Romance Report
September 16-22, 2019

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One day in Romancelandia lasts approximately 1.3 Earth years. Now imagine a week. To help you keep up, we’ve gone through the tweets about last week’s highs (and lows) of representation in romance to bring you our Weekly Romance Update. #RomanceSparksJoy #RSJWeeklyUpdate These are tweets from or about BIPOC, LGBTQIAP+, and/or otherwise underrepresented writers, reviewers, and list...

Directory Update

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We’ve received some feedback about the Representation in Romance Directory project that led us to reflect on intention versus impact and how this project othered people.  While we have had authors eager to share their info, we also understood that it was not something everyone wanted to participate in. With all of this in mind, we re-examined our mission statement of amplifying the voices of...

Romance Report
September 9-15, 2019

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One day in Romancelandia lasts approximately 1.3 Earth years. Now imagine a week. To help you keep up, we’ve gone through the tweets about last week’s highs (and lows) of representation in romance to bring you our Weekly Romance Update. These are tweets from or about BIPOC, LGBTQIAP+, and/or otherwise underrepresented writers, reviewers, and list curators. If you don’t already...