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Romance writer Kennedy Ryan made history in 2019 as the first Black author to win one of the most prestigious romance fiction prizes — the RITA Award in the Best Contemporary Romance: Long category, for Long Shot.

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Kennedy Ryan's romances are coming for your heartstrings

10:24am May 19, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

The author's high-emotional-stakes romances are about to reach a wider audience, with a five-book deal and an upcoming TV adaptation. Ryan says her "happily ever after" has been "hard-won."

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Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice

5:35pm August 05, 2021

by Karen Grigsby Bates

After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, they gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.