{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Adriana Herrera","description":"Adriana Herrera, a USA Today bestselling author, joins me this episode to talk about a converging series of experiences and events that led her to write and publish romance: her experiences as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic; the dissonance she felt between her studies on Black Feminist Thought and the colonial images she read in romance; the demoralizing rhetoric about immigrants in the 2016 elections and her need to affirm the existence of immigrants; and her need to create romance novels that center diverse characters who are Black and LGBTQ. In this conversation, she and I also talk about her Dreamer series as well as her additional publications: Finding Joy, Mangoes and Mistletoe, Here to Stay, \u201cThe Duke Makes Me Feel,\u201d and her newest release One Week to Claim it All. Her Dreamers series&amp;nbsp;has received starred reviews from Publisher\u2019s Weekly and Booklist and has been featured&amp;nbsp;on The TODAY Show on NBC, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Library Journal and The Washington Post. Her debut, American Dreamer, was selected as one of Booklist\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Best Romance Debuts of 2019, and one of the&amp;nbsp;Top 10 Romances of 2019&amp;nbsp;by Entertainment Weekly. Adriana is an outspoken advocate for diversity in romance and has written for&amp;nbsp;Remezcla&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Bustle. She is one of the co-creators of the&amp;nbsp;Queer Romance PoC Collective:  https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/pocqueerromanceauthorscommunit\/home?authuser=0 Thanks to @cbddepaul and @romancewriters for sponsoring this podcast. Creator and Producer of the Black Romance Podcast: Julie E Moody-Freeman Sound Editor: Randall Spriggs with rsvideophoto_media. Website is  www.rsvideophoto.media Artwork: Kyle Gabb; Marciano_arts Adriana Herrera\u2019s website: https:\/\/adrianaherreraromance.com\/ One Week to Claim it All: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08P3M3S7L?tag=ahromance-20 American Dreamer: An LGBTQ Romance:  https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08SVY14Z1\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 Finding Joy:  https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B085TRV833\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5 Mangoes and Mistletoe:  https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B081135L42\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4 Here to Stay:  https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B086R2QY77\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Black Romance Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/blackromancepodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/19619138\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/106243706"}