Fans of Interracial Romance discussion

Hi All,

I stole this question from a writer's board and it seemed interesting. What type of story or plot would you love to read that you feel hasn't been done or at least that you haven't seen done yet in a book?

Best Wishes!

http://www.stacy-deanne.net

I'd love to read a historical romance with nothing but black people. And I want the characters to be royalty, not slaves. I know it might seem a stretch but in fiction you don't always have to be accurate. I think us writers forget that being able to make up things and change things into a different kind of world is what's so great about fiction.

I am not sure if black historical romances exist but as someone obsessed with historical romances, I haven't seen them. I've seen some IR ones here and there but I just wanna see black people in this setting. I'd love to see a book like Dangerous Liaisons with nothing but black people. LOL! I think it would be cool.

Oh I'd love to see a movie like that too but I know I'm dreaming. If it was done something tells me it would be made into a comedy.

Beverly Jenkins writes black historical romance books.

I'd love to read a dangerous bad boy bwwm interracial story. Sam Starrett is a dangerous bad boy, but his and Alyssa's story were part of a series. I want to see single dangerous bad boy bwwm interracial stories. Anne Stuart has written two dangerous bad boy Asian man/White woman stories and yes, they were part of a series. I wish that she would write a black woman/white man story. I know she would write a catcher. Anne Stuart is a writer after my own heart.

Stacy I've been kicking around a story for a while rather loosly based on Alinor of Aquitaine. Probably set in the future, or the distant past, with a queen who's been married to two kings. I even thought of making it a contemporary with a First Lady who was once married to the PM of another country. Right now it's just a lot of notes and stickies. I don't know of any books like this, but I adore Alinor of Aquitaine, she was the ultimate kick butt heroine and I so want to play in that worl. I've always wanted to write medievals, but was always put off by having to write a white heroine. I also have a story about a Malian healer who comes to Italy at the time of the Black Death. Haven't gotten anyhere with that story either.

Arch,

I've never read one of her books. Does she write some similarly to what I described? Historical fiction with high class blacks? If so, interesting. Can you share a title that I might wanna check out?

Thanks!

Arch,

Not sure but I think Marie Rochelle has written some bad boy IR books.

Ros,

That sounds great! You've got my interest piqued! I think you should write it! I'd definitely wanna read it and I think it's refreshing. I think a lot of people would welcome it!

Stacy-Deanne wrote: "Arch,

I've never read one of her books. Does she write some similarly to what I described? Historical fiction with high class blacks? If so, interesting. Can you share a title that I might wanna c..."

I only one of her books, but I haven't read it yet. I just know that she writes black historical books and according to people on the covers, they aren't slaves.

@Ros - this is why I think more Af-Am writers like yourself should branch into fantasy romance. So much sword & sandals fantasy is historical fiction disguised. You can create a world that looks a lot like any time in world history and yet, because it is fantasy, you can people it with whomever you please an not have to worry about giving a nod to historical accuracy.

For myself I'd love a sword and sandals fantasy IR/romance featuring or a space opera series with with an AA heroine, kinda like a female Captain Kirk.

I think at this point, I would like more straight fantasy with people of color. The book I read today had elves and magic, a heroine who knows her way around a sword, and it has inspired me to try to write something along these lines.

I also the idea of historical fantasy in the WW2 with people of color. I am fascinated with the whole theory that the Nazi delved into the occult to win the war. I wrote a story along these lines for one of my NaNoWriMo challenges.

Okay, I'll stop, but a weird western with POC. I like stories where there are many different ethnicities and races as main characters, so my ideas tend to run in that direction.

Sounds interesting, Danielle!

Ros, there were black people in England and Europe, and in Portugal there were a number of black and mixed peoples due to the Crusades when many Moors (and many Nubian peoples made up the Moors). Granted they couldn't be members of royalty without being mixed blood, but you could make them landowners and craftspeople, especially wise women and healers. Other than that, there's always the Fantasy realm like Tina said.

Here are some sites of Interest:

http://staff.esuhsd.org/balochie/stud...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline...

Especially this one:

http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/0...

Chaeya

I have my "Guardian of Wands" series waiting in the wings, a multicultural set during the Restoration period. My heroine is half-British and half-Taino Indian. I started this shortly after seeing 1492 when I researched the Caribbean Indian tribes after Columbus came over-talk about a race getting dogged out. I was shocked to read that before Columbus there were over 100K different tribes in the Caribbean isles and northern South America, and due to disease and genocide, only a few thousand were left during Spain's conquest of the Americas, and it continued to dwindle from there. I have a lot of magic/fantasy elements to this story and it's already finished, I pretty much have to just go through my usual rewrites and edits.

Chaeya

Chaeya, I know there were black people in Europe in medieval times, but I'm not interested in writing about craftspeople. I like reading about royalty and such, so yeah, it looks lik I'll have to go fantasy.

STEAMPUNK!!!

I know I keep saying this is a genre tailor-made for PoC's and that's because it is!

In the contemporary genre, I want to read about more quirky PoC's. Yes, I keep saying that too, but there's a reason. I'm listening to Sevendust right now and I can't believe that no one's thought about writing a black male character who sings metal. I'd eat something up like that!

There are many interesting ideas here that I'd love to see. I've read most of Beverly Jenkins. She's amazing in her ability to make the 19th century US romantic for people of color. I've learned a lot about what went on during that period. All POC weren't slaves or runaways. There were some towns created by black people.

I recently discovered Kiru Taye. She is a British author who writes contemporary and Afro-centric couples. The guys can be heart throbs!

Vixenne wrote: "STEAMPUNK!!!

I know I keep saying this is a genre tailor-made for PoC's and that's because it is!

In the contemporary genre, I want to read about more quirky PoC's. Yes, I keep saying that t..."

Cherie Priest's Boneshaker series seems to be well populated with POCs. The second book

has a main male character who is black and the fourth book
has a biracial main female character.

Tina wrote: "Vixenne wrote: "STEAMPUNK!!!

I know I keep saying this is a genre tailor-made for PoC's and that's because it is!

In the contemporary genre, I want to read about more quirky PoC's. Yes, I keep s..."

True, and I've got both of those on my Nook. There's also:

and .

Still, I'd love to see more interracial romances set in a Steampunk universe. The best thing about this genre is that it's alternate universe historical so anything really can happen in it as far as PoC's are concerned.

On the contemporary angle, let's have more offbeat characters doing really cool things.

Re: Cherie Priest. Ha, and you can tell they are POC on the covers too! Nice.