I'm also planning another novel that features three couples. This second novel is going to be quite a bit of a challenge, but I'm up for it. I agree with this. Interesting take on interracial dating. I am interracial so it's kind of natural for me to date outside of my race and difficult since I am part African American, English, Native, and Filipino.
I'm not the type to call someone a real or "fake" Asian, whatever that means. I'm really sorry all of that happened to you though; that's not right at all. I have a question; just to hear other opinions I suppose. Do you think that geographical region, not time period, should affect the challenges for example, racism that the characters face? I know that time period would have a direct correlation to the amount of racism that the couple faces in the book.
However, do you think a couple living in a small town in a Southern U. I hope my question made sense. Just some food for thought I suppose. People in larger cities seem to be more open-minded, from my experiences. And just expand on my own question further, the actual location of the state or town--regardless of how big the city--could affect racism, at least in my opinion.
I could be easily wrong. Does Elf and Human count? I guess it does count in a way. My current western historical WIP involves a romance between a white woman and a half-breed native american. I tried to downplay that, and not emphasize that in the story.
The heroine simply sees him as a man, not as a half Indian man. I totally saw your book cover today on some site!!! It's really cool to see the covers of people you interact with. Ah, the mixed races Your story sounds very interesting; however, when someone says Indian I automatically think a person of Indian descent as in from the country of India not the US. My grandmother is a Native American not an Indian and when someone refers to her as an Indian it ticks her off, and as an biracial person I prefer biracial over half-breed.
You can feel free to talk about them here if you want. I think it would be okay. I kinda wonder what's the point of having a character be a halfbreed if you're not going to develop a theme of prejudice. But then I get frustrated because I seek out fantasy books about half breeds because I want to read about prejudice, but rarely find the theme developed fully; in my experience its more common to see stories trying to break this perceived stereotype than it is to find anything that actually fits the pattern.
I mean there's room for half-breed characters of all stripes, I just personally would rather see more angsty half-breeds who face prejudice along with a bit of fascination for being exotic. This applies to both Fantasy and IR Romance. I know that one of the main "complaints" I see is "racism being the main conflict" and how tired of that they are. I mean personally I don't think it's a problem to incorporate racism or prejudice as a side-conflict, unless the story is historical, then it can be a main or more important conflict.
That's just me though. I have one coming out in a couple of weeks. Don't want to clog up the thread chatting about it, but here's a link http: No one's really posted in this thread in a while. I kind of want to keep this thread going if I could. I have a starting romance between a white main character American and black secondary character South African in my recent script. But only as a secondary plot. Opal Moon, which is coming out on Friday, is a menage with a Caucasian werecat woman and a dark skinned fay woman and tanned fay man. I don't want to say she's African American because she's a fairy from a different world and was alive long before the United States was founded.
I have a book coming out in August featuring a white male demon and an asaian girl. I wish you guys the best of luck! One of them is starting off like a mystery but it might go into Romantic Suspense or Suspense with Romantic elements. I'm not sure what direction I want to take it in. Does anyone have any discussion questions to bring to "the table"? I don't have to be the only one asking questions. Totally missed this thread. I've got a couple of IR romance manuscripts floating around. This is an interesting thread The couple in my WIP a romantic suspense are interracial.
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They do spend about two-thirds of the book in India, and there is one character in the book who has an issue with the fact that they're an interracial couple - but it's primarily in there to further a particular aspect of the suspense. I didn't really think much about the fact that they weren't the same race while I was writing the book - the characters just felt so right in their skins that it wasn't an issue.
I've enjoyed reading the thoughtful comments on here The second novel I self-published featured the romance between a shy, geeky African American male and a beautiful woman living in the Philippines with whom he had been corresponding. They had fallen in love without having physically met. The book was loosely based on my own marriage now still going strong for over 17 years.
Yes, I am a geeky African American male--but not shy. My current WIP is about the complicated relationship between a heavily in debt African American couple and the wife's wealthy but lonely best friend, with whom the husband is having sex for money--with the wife's permission. The best friend is very multiracial.
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I came up with the idea based on a dream I had in which my wife told a real-life depressed female friend who was going through a heartbreaking divorce that she the friend could borrow me for a couple of nights. KMeister Those sound seriously awesome. I found this article through one of the groups I'm in; I thought it was worth sharing: I don't think I've read an IR at least not in the past few years where the hero or heroine spoke anything but standard English.
Setting probably makes a big difference. I've got a few secondary characters in my books that talk "country" but I don't think that counts. That kind of confused me too. I have read a few that contained slang but it wasn't that much I don't think. It's a shame some people can't relate to someone of a different shade.
We're all human with the same emotions, same dreams, going through similar problems. All my life I grew up reading stories with caucasion heroines and like the article writer, I too was drawn to various internal characteristics of the protagonists and the love story was hands down the reason why I was reading those novels.
I suspect this is the major hindrance with Christian romance as well. But in a romance novel, the love story is key. I rambled a bit about this on my blog http: I didn't think so. I write interracial romance but there aren't any racial conflicts in any of my contemporaries--just don't see the need.
It's a good question, and one I'm not sure I can answer in a way that makes a whole lot of sense. For me, culture trumps ethnicity. Two Southerners are going to have a lot in common, regardless of what their backgrounds are and that's what I play on. I feel like IR romance is sometimes marketed as a subgenre of romance when instead it should just be a keyword or search phrase. In subgenre, you expect certain plot components to exist across the board whereas with keywords you're just looking for features in a singular story.
Let's see if I can come up with an example. The otherwordliness is expected, it's part of the plot--you can't separate the fantasy from the romance and have it be a complete story. If interracial romance was a subgenre, it'd be the same deal If you relegate "interracial romance" to a keyword, it tells a reader what the characters are, but doesn't hint at the plot.
That's clear as mud. I guess, there's a difference to me between "what do my characters look like? I'm going to see if I can find that submission call that made me raise an eyebrow Fight or flight features a relationship between a biracial man and a white woman, but race racial issues aren't part of the conflict, and it isn't being sold as an interracial romance. I do have a story that i wrote, a friends to lovers story, where the heroine, who is black, does struggle somewhat with family issues involving her relationship with a white man.
In that story, the relationship and the conflict are affected by the interracial nature of their relationship, so if i ever try to sell it, i would sell it as an interracial romance. It's similar to using otherworldliness Or is it a stretch? I always though IR was just a descriptor of what the characters might look like, instead of a descriptor of the kind of plot.
My world is diverse, so my characters reflect that. I'm writing a series of IR novella's as we speak. In my stories, the hero and heroine just so happen to be of different races. I don't make a point of bring racial conflict into my stories. And while I know that sort of conflict does exist out there, it's nothing I've ever experienced in my IR relationship. I'd rather focus on the sexual chemistry between the characters and write around that premise as opposed to racial conflict. Mind you, that's not at all saying I wouldn't write a story in the future focused on racial conflict of an IR relationship.
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We would especially like to see Latin and Arabian lovers! Give an erotic twist to the tall, dark and suave Latin lover or the Sheik fantasy. Story lengths from 7K to K. It's kinda turning into a trope, I guess. I just kind of wanted to bump this thread, just in case some others wanted to add to it.
Silver--Thanks for bumping this. The heroine's mixed race is a significant issue in the novel; not only does she struggle with self-identity, but she struggles against common negative perceptions about Asians, Asian women, and public performers. In addition, they have to deal with opposition from his proper English family. The main character is a WM set in the South, beginning during the 50's and 60's when schools were first integrated. The WM falls in love with a Black female student who starts going to his high school.
The novel follows them throughout the course of their lives, and race is an issue in this book, considering the time period and historical significance. Because I don't read much romance, I have to say I am pleasantly surprised at the large amount of IR there is out there! I wasn't sure if any was going to add to it. But I still wanted the thread to be seen. So, glad I helped. I'm glad the thread got bumped too! I just started working on a IR romance. The conflict doesn't come from race but from her job. It's dangerous, shady and a bit illegal and you know how protective werewolves are with their women.
I'm only a couple of thousand words in but so far it's been lots of fun.
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Not completely on topic and not technically a romance, but I'm writing a fantasy trilogy with a romantic subplot with an inter-species relationship. And there is absolutely racial erm I just finished an IR new adult novel. I was inspired after reading a news article about IR couples and how they came about. Some were so sad, yet beautiful that the story just came to life.
My goal was just to move away from stereotypes and just write about these people and their love. My biggest fear is that I didn't do them justice. She also writes other contemp romances. I'm definitely checking these out!!! I am writing an interracial romance. Welcome to the group. Is there any type of IR Romance that you write? Also, I found this. I thought it would be helpful: It focuses on interweaving their religions.
It's a bit different for a romance, but I hope people will still like it. Wishing you many sales. There's a bunch of people trying to define what I write. I like to think it is contemporary romantic fiction. Yeah, I have done this too! I have a YA in which a white teen girl protagonist is trying to choose between two possible guys kind of complicated, but for simplicity's sake, I'll say she's trying to figure out which one is hiding a secret identity, and she's really in love with the secret identity. One of them is a black guy and one of them is a biracial guy his mom is white and his dad is black.
I tried to make sure while writing it that I found a good balance between not ignoring race but also not making it "the issue" whatsoever. It drives me up the wall when a book that's trying to be inclusive pretty much just includes PoC for diversity's sake but they all might as well be white people except for how they're described. So I didn't want anyone's race including the white girl's!
Both the romance novellas I have coming out this year one from Storm Moon and one from Carina are technically interracial, although one is science fiction and the other is fantasy so the history of race relations is very different--and much rosier than in the real world. So I sometimes feel like calling my writing interracial would be claiming to be more progressive than I really am, since it's a cosmetic change more than a social or cultural statement.
All the same, I'm happy to write about gorgeous men who happen to not be milky pale. And under a pen name not in siggy I have released two, new adult interracial romances where the race issue is almost the least of my characters' worries. I did not intend to write IR, but several readers have categorised my book in that way. I have a white female from the present time paired with a Native American male from the s. He's actually half Norse, half Native American, but it's part of the story. It just ended up that way from original story idea, which came from my family geneaology research.
On my dad's side I ran across an English ancestor who was killed in the Indian Massacre of , and I also have a good amount of Native American from my Bass family Nansemond ancestors. On my mom's side I am pretty much Scottish, which can be traced back quite far through the MacMillan Chiefs of Knap, and that put me in touch with all kinds of fascinating history and myth. So that's how I ended up with the combo of my protangonists. It's set in the Civil War, MC is the daughter of a plantation owner and her love interest is the only slave who stayed behind while all the others either ran away or joined the war.
Zombies fit in there too somewhere. I think in this context, race is going to have to explicitly come up more than once. I have to be very conscious about it whenever the MC and the love interest have "moments," given that a black man could be hanged back then just for looking at a white woman. What Pueblo is your character from? I ask because I'm Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo myself. I would love to read this. As to the question, yes, I seem to write IR exclusively.
Not on purpose - just who populates my imagination. I wrote an IR romantic suspense that is good. Not to pat myself on the back or do some quick ego masturbation, but the story isn't crap. I pitched it at RT and had multiple requests for it. Less than a month later I got two offers from two different Big 6 publishers but I lost my shit over it and felt very naive as well as offended. This is the year ! Who still thinks like that? I felt like I was in a bad after school special. I'm not going to say what the publisher was etc etc etc but I will say that I turned both of them down and I've decided to self-publish this series so I can continue to write my characters any fucking race I want without having to worry about a marketing and PR team that believe because a leading lady is black people won't buy the book.
While it is a risk to self-publish I know that there are people who read books not because of race of the characters, but because of their love of a good story. I sure would have been pissed too. But best of luck with self-publishing. No offense or anything. I want to hug you a million times and I feel it still wouldn't be enough.
I'm so sorry that happened to you but it's not the first time that I've heard of something like that, sadly. And I agree, you would think in this day and age it wouldn't matter. However, to some people, it still does. Again, greatest apologies and may you get far, far, far, FAR many sales with self-publishing. It's loosely based and located at the Sandia Pueblo. I hope you check it out and let me know how I did! I know it's a small press, but I am still stoked! So stick to your ideals and write about the people you want to write about!
Late to the virtual party, but it's so encouraging to see all these different takes on writing interracial romances, and even those that cross genre boundaries. I was particularly struck by your experience, Ann Mayburn. How disheartening that those publishers would ever ask you to do something like change the race of one of your main characters. So glad that you soldiered on and decided to do it on your terms. That's how you make real change!
My protagonist is of mixed race African American and white , and he falls in love with a white guy who dwells in the land of the Fae. Race doesn't factor into the relationship between my two main guys, but it does inform the protagonist's back story. He was raised in a white bread town, and between being closeted about his sexuality and his diverse racial background, he's always felt like an outsider. Once I've finished wrassling this story into shape wish me luck , I've got another one planned which also includes an interracial relationship between two men - white and African American.
Set in Atlanta in the s and s, racial issues will definitely be at play, since the plan is to have the 60s segment take place around the time of MLK's assassination. Having myself lived in Atlanta for fifteen years, I can say racial issues are still pretty hot button in the "city too busy to hate. Guess I'll find out. There's such negativity around racial issues in the media right now.
Sometimes we forget that in the real world there are tons of folks who are genuinely interested in getting to know people of different backgrounds on equal terms, and not through some visor of preconception. When we share our differences, it makes everybody wiser and more interesting. When we make a commitment to love someone who may look a little different from us, we strike a blow against narrow minds.
At least that's my two cents. Such a thoughtful thread - I'm really glad I found it! Another Texan here, though not that far south. I'm more in the central part. As to the OP's question, I can just now say that I am writing an interracial romance of sorts 'of sorts' in that I think it's going to be more of a series rather than a one-off romance, but still , too.
My main character is AA and his male love interest is Caucasian. Nice to meet the new additions. This can be Contemporary Fiction, Chick Lit, and whatever else.
I know this is an old thread I've also written the first draft of a novella that I suppose isn't technically interracial, but both MCs are Asian. I love romance books and IR categories also. I currently reading Emma Rose romance books. Hope you guys try it also. Thank you for the suggestion.
And welcome to the thread. They just happen to be different races. I have found some people who are voracious readers of interracial romance have bought it and been disappointed because race had nothing to do with the conflict and was not a main focus of the storyline. I ended up going with a different image for the ebook cover, just the heroine: See, this is what I've been wondering. I'm writing a post-apocalyptic romance novel where one character is mostly black and the other is mostly white. The white guy is the POV character; he grew up during the apocalypse, and he's totally unaware that racism was ever a problem for anyone.
Plus, they're both American and have no cultural differences at all. It's definitely an interracial relationship. A lot of the people I talk to wouldn't be bothered by that at all. In fact, a lot of people I talked to don't mind if race isn't the central factor to them breaking up or having conflicts If that makes sense. Now, some I've talked to don't mind if it's a background or side conflict. But one complaint I've seen, and even made myself, is how race is always the central, number one issue or conflict.
Cultural differences and defying racism are big conflicts, but I'd rather not see them be the major conflict in every interracial relationship I read about. I'd rather that it didn't impact the relationship in a big way. Still, I think when people hear "interracial romance" they expect it to impact the story in some way. Not that it should, but that might be what readers expect. What we need is more fiction with more POC characters in general. Well, admittedly I've only had two such complaints I do think when something is called an "interracial romance" readers do expect that component to have SOMETHING to do with story line, though, as someone else mentioned.
For my book it really doesn't, other than as a mere fact of the characters backgrounds and as a physical descriptive. I think I would expect it as well. If the interracial aspect is played up in the marketing and placement of the book, I'd expect it to play a role in the conflict. Now, the mere fact that those characters are of different race will, it seems, make the book an 'interracial romance' because some people need the labeling so they'd avoid the book.
And that just makes me go 'ugh'. But again, just my experience. Does anyone else here write interracial romance? I would say there are less than BMWW interracial romance books out there that stretch to more than pages. Still I keep on searching. When the genre first started, only black women in these relationships wrote these romances. Now it's taken off and everyone is writing them because it's become so popular.
It's always sold way more than WWBM books, which confuses me. I don't understand why white women are not writing these books when there are just as many BMWW couples in real life. I have known a few black men who wrote these books but abandoned them because they weren't selling. But, I know some white women authors who are married to black men yet they don't even write these romances.
You'd think they'd wanna at least try to write something that mirrors their relationships, but I think people are scared because it doesn't sell but if you don't write it, then it won't sell. BWWM took off because there were women starving for the content. There are a lot of black women who date and marry white men and want romances to mirror their lives. It was a niche that needed to be filled and that's why it does so well. I believe the same is for WWBM romance but it will take someone dedicated to writing it and not being afraid whether it sells or not.
It will also take someone pinpointing that audience and with as many black men and white women couples I see, no one can say these women wouldn't read these books if more were out there. I think WWBM will take off one day but as I said, it's gonna take someone who doesn't mind going through the low selling periods until it catches on to make it more popular. Just like when BWWM started, it was a very tiny niche that started years ago. Then Scandal happened and everyone got interested in black women and white men and you had this influx of new authors and all of a sudden everyone wanted to write it.
It takes only one hit or one thing to make something mainstream and it can soar. But, someone is going to have to buckle down and write WWBM with dedication, build a brand, and capture the audience for those books to do well. Just like any other niche category. Now, BMWW seems to do well in erotica. If you look at erotica you see tons of black men and white women as a fantasy or fetish. Maybe the ones reading the erotica are into a fetish-type thing but not into the pairing as a relationship. That's why some author needs to find the right audience and once the audience knows these books exist, it might grow.
Also, it's hard for a genre to gain an audience if there are not many books out there. There are only a few WWBM romances because they don't sell, yet if you don't write them, they will never sell. So someone has to start writing these books and stick it out for the long haul until it gains steam. I usually write BWWM romance as I married a white man and it's just fun to be writing something different. Does every interracial romance have to have the races dynamic as a sticking point?
I'm worried an agent won't be interested because of that idk I write and read interracial romances. As a reader, I don't like to read stories where the focus of conflict is on their race or culture. If that's the main conflict, I may as well read nonfiction or something along those lines. For me, I need more to connect me with the character and their love story. Particularly with race, I try to only write about things I know well I grew up in heavily hispanic areas, speak Spanish, and my sister married a Mexican and lives in Mexico, so although I am white I am comfortable having hispanic chapters in my book.
I'm not sure I would make any major characters anything besides white or hispanic, although smaller characters might be described as various ethnicities. I'd be interested to hear the approach of writing an ethnicity you aren't a part of. I lived in England and wrote a short fictional story based there, and was immediately nailed for writing things that seemed cliche British, so now I try to be more careful writing other cultures, etc! I don't particularly believe in a strict adherence to 'writing what you know' but I prefer to write sci-fi, fantasy, futuristic stories so it would be hard to believe otherwise lol.
As I'm unpublished I don't know if my opinion matters, however, I will say this, as a reader it is more about subtle of the characters ethnicity or culture than being bombarded with every nuisance of the their ethnicity or culture. My focus, when reading a romance, is the romance of the story -everything else is just background. I would recommend you continue to write the characters and stories as you envision them -it's the only way you can improve.
I can't believe any writer truly writes only what they know or have experienced or else they wouldn't have much to write about. It's not possible to write fiction in a bubble so I never understood the "write what you know" thing. I have no issues writing about circumstances I haven't experienced or different characters. When writing characters, it's about seeing the characters as "people" first.
Not someone's race or gender. Contrary to popular belief, minorities are just like everyone else. Yes, we have challenges white people don't face but that's not the entirety of our lives. I honestly think being a black woman has been a blessing for me as a writer. I have more creative freedom to write certain things without being judged. Oh my God, Diana thought to herself, the alarms ringing in her head.
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