#writing with color
also seriously if a character isn’t white, i promise your only descriptive options aren’t food words and varying degrees of tan. it’s okay to say brown. pale brown! light brown! golden brown! medium brown! dark brown! deep brown! so many kinds of brown!
BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN
#brown is not a bad word #you do not need euphemisms #B R O W N
Hi again, thank you to all the people that left messages and talked to me about this! You helped me a lot.
Thanks so much to the anon who reccomended the Writing With Color page, I found it to be a great resource so far, and I’ve read some on the animals hashtag. It was very helpful, and honestly super interesting to read through. I’ll be using it in the future and I invite my followers to check it out as well.
Tell us about your diverse publications via replies or reblogs to this post . We will highlight the works in a featured post!
Follow this format:
- Title:
- Author:
- Series? Yes or No.
- Web address for purchase: (Secure buy links, please. Goodreads with embedded links great too.)
- Super Short Premise: (1-3 sentences max.)
- Themes/Elements:(War, romance, lesbian sword fighters…)
- Race/Ethnicity of Main Character POV:
- Race/Ethnicity of Other Major Characters with a Story Arc: (limit to top few. If mixed race, mention those races.)
- Any other diversity in the novel? (LGBTQIA+, disability, mental illness, etc.)
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- Limit to 1 book to highlight. Depending on if this is well accepted, we can do this again and you can mention a different work then. :)
- Only submit YOUR story. Not just a book you’re recommending. There will likely be another post for that.
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Submission Deadline to be Featured in Post:
January 31, 2019. Deadline Extended!!!
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- Title:Rescues and the Rhyssa
- Author:TS Porter
- Series?No
- Web address for purchase:Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36541367-rescues-and-the-rhyssa
- Short Premise: Cadan is the king of Nidum star system’s favorite weapon, and his beloved cousin. Her sometimes-lover and main annoyance Sophi captains a smuggler ship. When the king’s children are kidnapped, Cadan knows only Sophi has the skills to help her get them back before full war breaks out.
- Themes/Elements:Lesbians IN SPACE, aliens, antagonistic relationship to romance, family both found and blood, love in many permutations
- Race/Ethnicity of Main Character POV: Black
- Race/Ethnicity of Other Major Characters with a Story Arc: Chinese diaspora
- Any other diversity in the novel? Lesbians, Trans characters, Disabled characters, Nonbinary characters, Muslim characters, Polyamorous characters
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