During the launch of Simply A Matter Of Time, a friend shared that she wanted to support a locally owned bookseller and reached out on Instagram to let me know they had carried my book. While the majority of my sales come from Amazon, I was so thankful to hear that her purchase was a win-win, both for me and for someone else. Here’s another win-win for your consideration:

I heard about the movement over the past four days to blackout the bestsellers list. I know I’m a little late, but it’s a trend with me, and I still believe the names below are great books by many amazing women, some of whom I have the privilege of knowing personally. I would like to acknowledge and thank Katie Baldwin for helping compile the list.

Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2018 Michigan Author Award by the Michigan Library Association, the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature, was featured in both the documentary Love Between the Covers and on CBS Sunday Morning. Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and NPR. If you would like to be notified when Beverly Jenkins has new releases, events, and other news, sign up for her newsletter at www.beverlyjenkins.net

Tracey Livesay

In addition to winning the 2018 Emma Award for Best Interracial Romance, Tracey Livesay has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly and on CBS This Morning. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law and a former criminal defense attorney, Tracey lives in Virginia with her husband-who she met on the very first day of law school-and their three children. When not answering the call of wife, mother or author, she watches planner videos on YouTube and daydreams about her next designer purse purchase. You can reach out to her on her website (traceylivesay.com) or find her on Facebook (TraceyLivesayAuthor), Twitter ( @tlivesay ), and Instagram (tracey.livesay).

Alyssa Cole

Alyssa Cole is an award-winning author of historical, contemporary, and sci-fi romance. Her romantic comedy A PRINCESS IN THEORY is a New York Times notable book for 2018. Her Civil War-set espionage romance AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION was the American Library Association's RUSA Best Romance for 2018, and also the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award Book of the Year. She's contributed to publications including Bustle, Shondaland, The Toast, Vulture, and others, and her books have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Library Journal, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she's not working, she can generally be found watching anime with her husband or wrangling their menagerie of animals.

Nina Crespo

Nina Crespo is the author of steamy, flirty, sexy reads that satisfy your desire to escape into the wonderful world of "happy for now" or "happily ever after". Wine and coffee often fuel her imagination. Visit her at www.ninacrespo.com

Alexa J. Day

Alexa Day is a USA Today Bestselling Author with a confession to make. She spent years and years defacing her textbooks by writing romantic stories in the margins. Only now does she realize that if she had used her notebooks instead, she might still have some of those stories instead of spending time wondering who got her books after she turned them in.

Adriana Herrera

Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last 15 years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings. When she's not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family or hunting for discount Broadway tickets, she's a social worker in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Jodie Slaughter

Jodie Slaughter is a twenty-something who has been coming up with stories about people in love all her life. A huge lover of suspense, antiheroes, and daring heroines, she loves incorporating those elements into her romance novels. Whether she's writing a dark romance full of intensity or something only a little mischievous, she is always striving to make her love stories as compelling and unique as possible.

Moni Boyce

Moni Boyce is a writer, filmmaker, travel blogger and author of contemporary and paranormal romance. She spent the last fifteen years working in the film industry and now creates characters of her own and brings them to life on the page. She considers herself a bookworm, film buff, foodie, music lover and an avid world traveler having visited 33 countries, 5 continents and 27 US states so far.

I know I’m always down for great new suggestions. Let me know if there are any I missed!

Kathryn