{"id":1000,"date":"2007-11-17T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/african-american-novels-by-white-authors.html"},"modified":"2007-11-17T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T00:40:00","slug":"african-american-novels-by-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/african-american-novels-by-white\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American Novels By White Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I came across these books in my messy basement. They’re old Heartsong Presents titles that I read years ago, back when I was still in the Heartsong Presents book club. Although these books have African-American characters, the authors are Caucasian. I recall I enjoyed them back when I read them, and I thought the authors did a great job of portraying the African-American characters.<\/p>\n

The reason I’m blogging about this is because I’m just expanding on what I blogged about a few days (or was it a week?) ago about Marilynn Griffith (an African-American Christian fiction author) writing a novel with Asian characters.<\/p>\n

I feel it takes a fair amount of talent to write a novel having main characters of another race.<\/p>\n

I’m planning on reading through my contract over the next day or so and get that in the mail to my publisher. Only reason I haven’t gotten to it yet is because of the line edits I had to do for my manuscript. I’ve sent that in. Hopefully I won’t have to read the book again, but we’ll see.<\/p><\/div>\n

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***Update added March 20, 2009. I don’t have this novel in my possession, but an email from a reader prompted me to update this post. Heartsong Presents also published a novel called Soft Beats My Heart<\/a> by Aleesha Carter – this is a pen name for multi-published inspirational White romance author Loree Lough. Loree’s great! She helped me out with my writing when I submitted my novel to Steeple Hill Love Inspired years ago! I even mentioned her in the dedication! <\/p>\n

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