DIVERSITY IS NO MYSTERY

摘要

Although its primary goal is to put more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of children, the We Need Diverse Books (weneeddiveresebooks.org) grassroots movement (a 2015 LJ Mover & Shaker) is also opening the way for new voices to be heard in adult genres, including crime fiction and mysteries. And publishers and writers' organizations are paying attention. Sisters in Crime (SinC), a group founded to support female mystery authors, recently released its 2016 Publishing Summit Report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Mystery Community (ow.ly/B5BU304Vyw0) and announced the creation of Frankie's List, a database of writers of color and LGBTQ+ authors (ow.ly/XYs7304VyBZ). Curated by and named after Frankie Y. Bailey, SinC's first African American president, this database will enable librarians to build more representative collections. The group also announced the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, an annual grant of $1,500 for an emerging writer of color.