![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. And they're like, what are we supposed to do with this? You know, there was no box for that!Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Night Song Author Beverly Jenkins It's the story of a Buffalo soldier and Oberlin-educated schoolteacher in an all-Black town on the plains of Kansas in the 1880s. ![]() This is my first book, Night Song, which is still in print. So here I come with a story about a Buffalo soldier. The "but" had to do with what we're talking about right here, because in publishing's eyes, a 19th century story concerning African Americans should have dealt with slavery. I received enough rejections to probably paper my house and yours! And most of the letters said "Great writing, but." When I started the market was basically closed to African American romance writers. So I was basically just writing it for me and sort of stumbled into the publishing world. I mean, even when there was nothing in the mass media that reflected who I am and, you know, my cousins, and parents, and those people at church who had been married for 50 years and were still holding hands going to the car afterward. Many people know that you write romance-you are, as you like to say, a proud romance writer-but we don't all know why you write romance. ![]()
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