B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsACE-ROC / Latina / New York City / POC / Urban-Fantasy4 Comments
Dear Mr. Older, I have an uneasy relationship with urban fantasy. During the subgenre boom some years back, I dove headfirst and devoured everything I could get my hands on. It seemed like I couldn’t get enough of it. But like all things, that phase came to an end and ... more >
B- ReviewsAmerican historical / cowboy / Historical / Interracial / POC / teacher / western13 Comments
Lily looked at the vastness of the plains, full of cattle, and then up at the sky without a cloud in sight. “What’s going to happen, Mr. Sinclair?” she asked. “What do you know?” Fresh off the train from New York City, Lily Carteret arrives in picturesque Wyoming only to ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthenticity / Letters of Opinion / multicultural / POC70 Comments
Over the years we’ve had a lot of spirited debates here at Dear Author about questions of authenticity and authority. Who gets to tell the stories of the disadvantaged and the historically silenced? As women, many of us are keenly aware of what it means to have someone more powerful, ... more >