Jun 11, 2018
When a friend suggested I interview romance writer Jasmine Guillory on the show, I'll admit I was a little skeptical. Romance novels? Not really my thing. Then I binge-listened her book, The Wedding Date, and I was hooked. Seriously, sometimes I'd sit outside my house in my car just to find out how the chapter would end. Guillory is a great storyteller: funny, perceptive, and smart. She's also a great dreamer. A successful lawyer in the Bay Area, she taught herself how to write fiction, transcending the obstacles of doubt, limited time, rejection, and race. Guillory, who is black, says, "I wanted to read fun books about smart girls who lived in cities and did exciting things with their friends. I couldn’t find books like that about black girls." So she wrote one herself. This is the story of how she did it.