Living Your Childhood Dream & Publisher's Blackspectations With Tiara Brown & Nicky P

Beginning our conversation, Tiara J Brown tells us how she finally pulled the trigger on her dream of being a writer, after rereading a story she'd written as a child. Tiara felt inspired to revive her story as an adult and began shopping it around to publishers. This turned out to not be the most fruitful path of course for a burgeoning fantasy novelist.

With some prompting Tiara confirms some of my worst suspicions about the publishing industry for Black creators. She describes some notes that she got from some publishers upon discovering it was a Fantasy story and not a book that focused on her race. Tiara says she's writing the kind of story that she likes. Period.

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