We are still debating some of the same issues and asking the same questions. I love history and I love romance. They know it's not enough just to have Black characters in a book. It's important to have quality work that's accurate historically and culturally. Writing historical romances is very time-consuming work.
Some contemporary authors are able to produce two or more books a year.
My library background helps me somewhat, but researching and writing these novels still takes a lot of time. I can only complete a book a year. I'm happy for the work done by authors like other historical romance writers like Patricia Vaughn and Anita Richmond Bunkley. But I do wish other African-American authors would take the plunge into historical romance writing. There is a lot of Black history that has not been written about, embraced, portrayed or shown.