Wildcard Wednesday - Diversity Deep Dive - Your Top 3 Romances with WOC Leads!

Welcome to the Diversity Deep Dive, where we discuss diverse romances. Today’s topic: your top three romances with FMCs who are women of color.

Why three? Because there are a lot - a ton, a million (or in keeping with the current inflation of rich MMCs in the romance world, maybe a billion) - of wonderful romances with WOC leads out there, so here we want to talk about only your very favorite, the creme de la creme, the ones you think that every romance reader should be picking up and reading.

If you haven’t read much romance with WOC and you’re looking for resources, a couple of great websites to check out for books:

WOC in Romance is a website promoting the work of Women of Color in romance fiction

Girl Have You Read about Black romance

Romance in Color focuses on reviews of Black romance

RomanceClass Books is a group of indie romance writers in the Philippines, writing romance with Filipino/a leads

And for scholarly discussions of and research into the presence of women of color in romance, you can always run a search of the Romance Scholarship Database. The Journal of Popular Romance Studies has numerous special editions, including Black Romance, Romance in the International Marketplace, and Love in Latin American Popular Culture. And researcher Steve Ammidown has a collection of his articles on Black Romance History.

If you've got more websites to suggest or comments to make, please feel free to do so in the comments - Diversity Deep Dives are intended to be discussions, not simply collections of book recommendations (although they're that, too).

As always with the Diversity Deep Dive, we're encouraging diverse and respectful representation, especially ownvoices.