Lady Business

Have you heard of the A More Diverse Universe book blog event? It's run by Aarti on http://www.aartichapati.com/p/diversiverse.html. It's about getting book blogs to read and review people of color for a few weeks in September. I participated last year, and it was a ton of fun. It also helped me find new books to add to my TBR list by nonwhite authors.

I think my gender statistics are probably about fifty-fifty, but skewed slightly female. Racial statistics? Not so good, but they have improved from last year (granted, that's not a high bar). I've also discovered that a lot of the books by diverse authors I'd like to read can't be found in the local Barnes and Noble, so I often have to find other ways of acquiring them. It really shows how the the publishing system's set up.