Past TRR Issue
Welcome to the first installment of The Romer Review for 2005. This, being our tenth issue in the three years we’ve been in operation, we endeavor to bring you the same level of expertise and insight on the topical issues that set us apart from our competitors. Of course, apologies will always be due for lack of timeliness and following through on deadlines. For this, we endeavor to do better and are committed to do better. With this in mind, we bring you our view of how Christian-themed novels are beginning to make noise inclusively for room on the bookshelves of your minds.
Included are the usual staples that we’ve always given you, The Muse Online with an essay bestowing Black Christian Novels and The Write Thing. The latter for this installment gives you opinions from a few authors who are writing in this vein and a few titles we feel would go a ways in giving you inspirational fortitude. Gloria Malette’s Distant Lover is included in the book review section as a hold over from last month’s intended crop of reviews.
I like everybody else who’ve been watching trends in African-American literature, watch with baited interest to see what direction the wind blows for upward spirals that tend to be favorable for sales initiatives and author’s imagination. Spirituality and inspiration have nudged recent genres for shelf space and legitimacy, as more of them are being written and accepted. Suffice it to say, there are a few purists who feel that this type of literature is not doing any favors by writing across spiritual lines with content being sabotaged by context. Questions will always be registered as what is really considered ‘Christian’ fiction and what constitutes a real definitive notion of what should be written. I couldn’t ignore this and wanted to bring to The Romer Review readership this report. Here’s hoping that you enjoy. As always your comments are welcome!
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