{"id":1186,"date":"2007-02-09T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/shelving-black-books.html"},"modified":"2007-02-09T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:16:00","slug":"shelving-black-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/shelving-black-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelving Black Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RcvbAQXd5MI\/AAAAAAAAAFQ\/Iactqfhnhmk\/s1600-h\/bookshelf.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RcvbAQXd5MI\/AAAAAAAAAFQ\/Iactqfhnhmk\/s320\/bookshelf.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5029354206329169090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that bookstores are not consistent in the way that they shelve books by African American authors. Sometimes they are shelved in the AA section, and other times I&#8217;ll find them in the general fiction section. Sometimes, if it&#8217;s a romance, it&#8217;ll be in the romance section.<\/p>\n<p>I wish there was a way for the bookstores to automatically place books by AA authors in the AA interest section(for those who only read Black books, like the people I was speaking of in yesterday&#8217;s post) <em><strong>AND<\/strong><\/em> to place them along with their genre of fiction. For example, I&#8217;d like to see my romance novels shelved in the romance section AND the AA section. I&#8217;ve even entered bookstores, and if they have multiple copies of my book, I&#8217;ll take one or two and place it in the AA section, so that those browsing in that section will see my titles.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s hard to find a consistent method for all bookstores to follow, but it would be great to find a way so that the books by AA authors could be easily found by all parties interested in these novels.<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that bookstores are not consistent in the way that they shelve books by African American authors. Sometimes they are shelved in the AA section, and other times I&#8217;ll find them in the general fiction section. Sometimes, if it&#8217;s a romance, it&#8217;ll be in the romance section. I wish there was a way for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}