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The end of an era: Kimani Romance going away

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It came in an email. Dear Author. Blah, blah, blah, these books just aren't selling. Do, do, do,  we're ending the Kimani romance line in 2018. Wow. No more African American romance stories. Of course they say they will open other lines up to the Kimani authors. Authors who are majority black and brown. And should believe this, right? I mean, Harlequin Desire has given us such culturally diverse books like: And no, Sarah Anderson is not an author of color. For a long time, all black characters could only be in Kimani books. Then this happened. And who can forget this gem?  In this story, the black woman heroine doesn't think she's good enough for the white hero and then there is the black baby they find in the trash can. Ok. That is cultural diversity at it's best. . .uh-huh. I've only written three books with Kimani and after seeing how this line was promoted and treated in the world of romance, I'm more angry tha