When I first started writing for them I was also writing for St. I think after two years they offered me an exclusive contract. There were some probably who didn’t want to read black love, but by and large my book sold. They said let’s cross our fingers that it works, and it did.
It shouldn’t matter if the characters were black, white, blue or whatever. My thing is, I’m presenting a love story. I think they wanted to see how I was accepted in the line. I was one of the first black Desire authors. And that’s how I started writing for them.įorged In Desire, by Brenda Jackson (2017). And I was appreciative, and they made me an exclusive contract. I don’t have to try to beat the door down to them. I had to chuckle a little bit at the time because Harlequin had always been my first choice to write for, and I was surprised that now they were calling me. As she explains below, with her independently published e-books, she pushes the boundaries of the characters romance writers are expected to write about. She continues to write romance books for Harlequin, but she also writes books under her own publishing company. She’s put out more books under her name than some people have ever read. The Florida-based writer has been publishing romance books since 1995. It’s been too long since we added an interview to our “ Titans of Kindle” series, so we went looking for independent e-book authors with a large following and found Brenda Jackson. He dug in a little more and realized that a sub-category in that group, African American fiction, seemed to be driving a lot of those sales. In that talk, he said that the “literary” category in e-book sales seemed surprisingly large. Creative commonsĪt this year’s Digital Book World, we heard a talk from Data Guy, half of the duo behind the website Author Earnings.
It took Brenda Jackson a long time to convince the market gatekeepers that a love story is just a love story.
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