Carole V Bell

For a book about legacies and the afterlife, Shannon Sanders’ debut novel, The Great Wherever, is surprisingly and charmingly life-affirming.

Amber McBride says she approaches YA novels with a different level of empathy for her readers.

In his new book, scholar and columnist Theodore Johnson helps us understand how Black men may vote for a demonstrated racist for president.

Over two decades of writing books, author Danzy Senna (Caucasia and New People) faced the same obstacle again and again: “I kept coming up against the problem of my work being uncategorizable and me being uncategorizable.” At 53, Senna has earned…

Dr. Julie E Moody-Freeman and co-host Dr. Carole Bell interview Adriana Herrera, groundbreaking, best-selling writer of A Caribbean Heiress in Paris. Adriana Herrera is a USA Today Best Selling and Audie winning author of over a dozen novels.

Black Romance Podcast Books In season four, I’m joined by Dr. Carole Bell. Carole is a culture writer, a media scholar, and a romance fan. This season’s focus is on “Pathbreaking Books and New Directions.” We are diving into novels both past and…

Books Dr. Julie E Moody-Freeman and co-host Dr. Carole Bell interview Tia Williams, best-selling writer of A Love Song For Ricki Wilde. Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, Teen People, and…

Julia Alvarez’s work is inspired by what she feels is missing in the world: “I write very much to gaps on my bookshelf.” When Alvarez conceived her 1991 debut novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, “the few immigrant stories that were out…

PW’s series of deep dives into topics and themes essential to the publishing industry today. It’s been a good year for romance publishing: print unit sales for the first nine months of 2023 were up 16.5% compared with the same period in 2022,…

Mick Herron, author of the phenomenally successful Slough House espionage novels, has been hailed as the best spy novelist of his generation. His bestselling, award-winning series following MI5 agents who have fallen from grace expanded its fan base…

The Ray Carney saga is Colson Whitehead’s first series, and just like his readers, he feels passionately about the man at its center: a respectable, upwardly mobile furniture salesman by day, and fence of stolen goods by night. “I love him too. He’s…

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BookPage is excited to host a first look at the new print edition of Kennedy Ryan’s gorgeous and pulse-quickening romance The Kingmaker. The first part of an addictive duology, The Kingmaker is a suspenseful, intrigue-filled ride that generated…

Playwright and producer Branden Jacobs–Jenkins welcomed two babies into the world during the Covid pandemic. One was his now sunny and vivacious toddler. The other, far more finicky, seedling he’d nurtured for a decade—the television adaptation of…

When Kathryn Ma visited China in 1999, she was traveling with her mother and her father. Ma’s father was returning to his home country and hometown for the first time in 50 years. That experience, so steeped in emotion and familial and national…

Since its 2016 premiere, Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar has been a gorgeous ode to Black family and love. Six years in, at the start of its valedictory season, the series has earned its place in American cultural history with a legacy that’s arguably…

Few words related to identity convey a more precise meaning than the ones Bolu Babalola uses to describe her identity: “I’m a Nigerian child, eldest daughter.” If you’re familiar with immigrant parents, you know the drill: Education is the key to…

Akwaeke Emezi is known for their literary flexibility, having already displayed a mastery of fiction, poetry and memoir, but You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is a shock to the system in more ways than one. The differences between the…

The authors of four acclaimed young adult novels, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka enjoy a friends-to-lovers romance that is better than fiction. Long before they even thought of writing romance, they were childhood rivals-turned-friends…

The uber-talented Olga Acevedo, the titular heroine of Olga Dies Dreaming, grew up in a working-class Nuyorican family (New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent) full of strivers and revolutionaries. But as an adult, she makes her living as a wedding…