We’ve updated the Resources section of the website with a new page on diversity for authors and readers, and we’ve added a couple of links in some of the other sections. Please send us links that will help others find the stories they want to read, or write the stories they want to write.
In other website improvements, we’ve enabled Gravatar support and threaded commenting, so if you comment on the blog, we’ll be able to see you as you want to be represented and we’ll be able to tell to whom you are speaking; and we’ve enabled page caching which should mean the site will load much faster.
If there’s something you’d like us to talk about in particular here on the blog, drop us a note in the comments.
Thank you so much for the diversity page of your resourse section it is much needed. And thank you for your commitment to diversity in publishing.
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You’re welcome! It’s an issue that’s very important to all of us.
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This is great, Deena. I’m so proud to be an author for Drollerie Press!
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Deena Replied:
January 25th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
@Meredith Holmes,
My evil plan is working…mwah hah hah.
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lol, I feel like the guy on that travelocity commerical… “They got me! aaaaah, they got me!”
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I am African American and I both laughed and cried after reading the new selection of recommendations under your diversity resources. Yes they should be recommended.
Pam Noles and I could have had the same loving and caring parents. My mom and dad used to asked the same questions of me back in the day and I didn’t have any answers either. I just knew what I loved to read and I dreamed of writing characters that would change things. Little did I know how hard that was going to be.
And, yes,yes, I know the sensation of wanting to hug white people- who get it. From my English teacher who found the fantasy with black folks in it for me when I was high school, to the clerk in the store who always made sure they had Tananarive Due( I met her at a writers workshop, what a wonderful, generous teacher.)
I will be sending the writers of fantasy and science fiction, in my critique group to the other two sources for information. It will save me from having to rant on and on about why their characters of color aren’t working and why they, as white writers, really need to care.
Once again thank you because this topic is so important to me as an African American writer.
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Deena Replied:
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
@lafreya1, thank you. I’m glad things are changing, and I wish they were changing much faster. Please come back and let me know if you run across any other resources.
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