Morgan: Yeah, as we noted, publishing is obviously deeply imperfect publishers in general need to be publishing more books by Black authors and other authors of color, and paying them, and marketing them, much, much better than they do. Whereas publishing at least seems to respect and understand the power of a loyal audience that values a laugh and a love story, and that said audience is much bigger than how Hollywood defines it and deserves smart content.
But even so, it still seems like it’s doing better on that front than Hollywood. The mainstream movie industry hasn’t taken rom-coms seriously in a long, long time, and too often when it makes a cursory effort to do so, it’s with a stale gendered perception of romances being “chick flicks” and how they can twist them to get traditionally male butts in seats. Publishing as an industry still has a long way to go, obviously, in terms of diversity.
Why do you think this might be?Ĭocks: I truly don’t know, but I wonder if it has to do with there being better representation in romance and rom-com novels in general. Fortune: There have been countless think pieces claiming that the romantic comedy has been dead on the silver screen for the past several years, but in the literary world, rom-coms seem hotter than ever.
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