20th Century Historicals / Racial diversity in Romances

[sending via email] Found this entry via Riemannia's livejournal blog friends page: oracne's blog: Romances--why not 20th century? http://www.livejournal.com/users/oracne/558150.html?#cutid1 I have my theories, but -- I think I will save it for another time when my mind is in the right frame. Right now, I'm taking a series of puffy yet deep breaths, pepping myself to go out into the bitter cold to make my way through the insane maze of tube lines and people for my hotel. Urgh. Also there is an interesting discussion going on about racial diversity in romances at Riemannia, and via one of comments, another discussion about the same topic at, um, let me check -- Yoon Ha Lee's "Earthsea/Firefly/genre/race/other notes" http://www.livejournal.com/~yhlee/229267.html [God, I hope I typed up the numbers correctly. If not, the link is at Riemannia's in an entry that mentions Roz Denny Fox's SHE WALKS THE LINE. I find this interesting because Michele Albert [I don't remember the URL of her blog, sorry] says something about having an impression that editors, publishers and agents don't think that there is a story for Chloe, a minor but memorable character from her earlier books because, possibly, Chloe is half-Japanese and has a shady past. It's an issue that bothers me for a while. I think I will leave this for now because if I leave the office in this mood, I'd be arrested for attempting to strangle anyone who would be crazy enough to stop in middle of a tube entrance. Is there an invisible law that there must be at least one person to stop and stand in middle of an entrance, ignoring the fact that there is a HUGE number of people behind him or her? Riemannia's blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/riemannia Sorry that you have to cut-and-paste those URLs to visit those sites. I'm too tired to recall HTML codes to create links as I'm writing thisin email. Sorry, sorry. Be good, be bad & be safe.