The absence of black writers in the best seller top rankings has nothing to do with the quality of work, but marketing and publicity, a novelist tells Sky News
"For example, I have never walked into a major bookstore and seen poetry by a black author."
She said:"Sometimes, we struggle to get authors to come down, because their publishers won't pay their travel expenses. "But unless it's being seen on a regular basis by an obscene amount of people, it's the only way it's going to sell.However, she does recognise there has been change. Scarlett said while these books are important and have inspired her along the way it was important that The Hive"had nothing to do with racism, that wasn't a running theme", but instead a story everyone could relate to.
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