Welcome to my new monthly feature, a spotlight on the work of writers of color in LGBTQ+ romance. The lovely ladies at The Ripped Bodice did an amazing informal survey on the state of racial diversity in romance publishing, and the results were deeply depressing. Especially from LGBTQ+ romance publishers–which surprised me a lot. I find it very short-sighted to promote diversity in sexual orientation and not diversity in race.

With those staggering stats in mind, I’ve decided to open my blog to writers of color in the LGBTQ+ romance community with a monthly spotlight. So if you’re a #WOC in #LGBTQ+ #romance interested in being featured, send me an email! I would love to promote your work.

I’m thrilled to welcome Kendall Morgan to the blog for the inaugural spotlight. Kendall has been in the LGBTQ+ romance game since the ’90s, so she’s a firsthand witness to social change when it comes to both diversity and LGBTQ+ acceptance in the romance world. She writes hot as H-E-double-hockey-sticks contemporary romance, often involving a bear/twink dynamic. Her most recent release is Spooky Ginger Love (anything with the word ‘ginger’ in the title is an auto-buy for me), and she has two series going, the Pacific Palms Resort series and the Bearland Tales series. Details and Amazon buy links for three of her books are below!

Spooky Ginger Love

Keith Norwood, a handsome African-American gay bear, came to Camp You-Mee’s Bears Haunted Halloween Boo-Nanza Extravaganza for some cheesy holiday thrills and a little ass. A fan of the one-night stand, he thought all he wanted was to get laid. The camp’s cute assistant manager with a fantastic butt was Keith’s first choice.

Instead, he loses his way in the haunted woods. He finds his way and himself with the help of Ronnie Gans, a big, friendly, hairy redhead, who is unlike any one-night stand Keith has ever had.

Buy it here!

Twinks in Bearland

The friends of pretty blue-eyed Dustin Garber are about to find out that he has a secret. He loves bears, big hairy gay men. None of them know it, but he’s just booked them all into the annual Gay Bear Ski week.

Craig, beautiful, black and Jewish, is initially indifferent to the fact that he is spending a week with big hairy men. He already has a hook up planned of his own, although that man turns out to have a bizarre secret.

Patrick and Ethan, two bear-hating twinks who have been secretly in love with each other for years, take much longer to come around to the idea that bears can be good guys too. Dustin isn’t so sure his friendship with them will survive the trip.

And then Dustin meets Nate, a big blond bear who is forever single but ready for something a little different. Nate’s friends, Casey and Ryland, are fighting about Ryland’s porn career. Nate’s friend Gil is busy with a Canadian couple, but together Dustin and Nate get lost on a backcountry trail. Deep in the snow away from everyone they may just find the love they’ve been seeking and the understanding they didn’t know they needed.

Twinks in Bearland is the first book in the Bearland Tales series, but each book can stand alone. This gay contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.

Buy it here!

Keeping Score

Brandon Stephenson is a YouTube star and former fat kid looking to rest, relax, and get laid at Pacific Palms Resort, a very gay and very expensive tropical paradise.

A lazy blow job on the beach from one man leads to sex in the sand with a hunky Sri Lankan the next day. But, in order to get what he really wants and fall in love, he’s going to have to realize that he’s not a fat kid any more. He’s a hunky adult. Placing wagers on people’s lives is not a good idea.

And if he really wants Julian Bailey, the resort’s Jamaican director of fitness with rock hard abs, he’s going to have to go and get him.

Keeping Score is the first book in the Pacific Palms Resort series, but each book can stand alone. This gay contemporary erotic romance love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.

Buy it here!

Kendall Morgan Bio

I started writing gay male erotic romance stories in the early ’90s, but only gay male porn magazines would publish them. I’m so glad things have gotten more respectable and the readership more broad. I am a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage, and I love writing interracial romance stories. I love flipping stereotypes and challenging myself to write characters that are ever further from who I am. I hope you enjoy my stories. I certainly love writing them.

If you would like more info about Kendall’s books, check out her Romance IO and her GoodReads pages.

Are you a writer of color who specializes in LGBTQ+ or het romance? Would you be interested in having your work featured in one of my spotlight posts? Contact me at selinakray@hotmail.ca. I would love to have you!