More time to get your writing on!!!This week, Vanessa and friend Julia Argy consider how to offer unsolicited advice to a Redditor struggling with parents who disapprove of his girlfriend’s ethnicity, personality, and basically all the things he loves about her. Vanessa turns to her favorite romance novelist, the legendary Beverly Jenkins, to understand what we can learn from the portrayal of race in romance novels. Together, they discuss the power of representation in stories, the ministry of romance novels, and love and happily ever afters in the African-American experience.Send us your own romance advice questions for future episodes on our website at
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