'Diverse voices' among US novelists are catching TV industry’s attention


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Author Kwana Jackson's 2020 novel 'Real Men Knit' about four brothers in New York’s Harlem was optioned by a production company for a potential TV series. Photo: AP

Growing up an avid reader, Kwana Jackson knew where to look for romance novels with Black characters: Segregated in the "African American interest” section where only determined shoppers would find them.

When Jackson became a published author she saw other ways in which writers of colour were obscured, potentially affecting both book sales and the odds their work would catch the entertainment industry’s attention.

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