Describing a character as "East Asian in a dreamy way" (as opposed to the icky kind of East Asian?)
ugh. sounds like just another variation of "pretty/hot for a ____". Descriptions like these, especially if they're from the POV of a love interest, is one reason I have issues with some portrayals of POC/white relationships in romance books (well, possibly other genres too) written by white authors. I don't get the appeal of being with someone who thinks of me like that. (Ditto heroes who are misogynists.)
I haven't been reading urban fantasy lately, though I do have Marjorie Liu's latest waiting to be read. And I'm looking forward to Alaya Johnson's Wicked City.
I think the only self-published author I've read so far is Courtney Milan, who writes historical romance. She started out in traditional publishing and decided to self-publish to see if she could make money by lowering the price of her e-books and, when possible, not drm-ing them. And I think she made a blog post too about wanting to write about people that most historical romance doesn't care about/won't publish, so hopefully that means not just rich, titled, straight, white people. I like her sensibilities/online persona (I think she's part Asian too, though all her characters have been white).
Since I got my e-reader, last year, I haven't read much paper books -- it's mainly only comics that I read that way now. I much prefer reading on the e-reader because I don't get paper cuts, don't lose my page, can make the font gigantic, can carry a lot of books & fanfic with me... I would buy SO MANY books at ~2.99, so I hope self-publishing endeavours like Milan's work out.
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Describing a character as "East Asian in a dreamy way" (as opposed to the icky kind of East Asian?)
ugh. sounds like just another variation of "pretty/hot for a ____". Descriptions like these, especially if they're from the POV of a love interest, is one reason I have issues with some portrayals of POC/white relationships in romance books (well, possibly other genres too) written by white authors. I don't get the appeal of being with someone who thinks of me like that. (Ditto heroes who are misogynists.)
I haven't been reading urban fantasy lately, though I do have Marjorie Liu's latest waiting to be read. And I'm looking forward to Alaya Johnson's Wicked City.
I think the only self-published author I've read so far is Courtney Milan, who writes historical romance. She started out in traditional publishing and decided to self-publish to see if she could make money by lowering the price of her e-books and, when possible, not drm-ing them. And I think she made a blog post too about wanting to write about people that most historical romance doesn't care about/won't publish, so hopefully that means not just rich, titled, straight, white people. I like her sensibilities/online persona (I think she's part Asian too, though all her characters have been white).
Since I got my e-reader, last year, I haven't read much paper books -- it's mainly only comics that I read that way now. I much prefer reading on the e-reader because I don't get paper cuts, don't lose my page, can make the font gigantic, can carry a lot of books & fanfic with me... I would buy SO MANY books at ~2.99, so I hope self-publishing endeavours like Milan's work out.