Originally Posted by The Watcher

Normally I go to black bookshops but ever noticed in the main big chains the black sections are filled with very dissapointing fare. I'm talking strictly the fiction books here. There seems to be an over saturation of erotica and romance books by the women and way too many gangsta tales by the men. The supposedly adventerous writers seem to be daring and bravely mix the too so we have lots of ghetto/gangster romance stories too. The men's books seem to revolve around dealers who are always succesful and the boss of their particular ghettos. A plague of Nino frikkin Browns living rap video lifestyles, always with a secretly disloyal number two lol. The womens seem to involve characters with impressive sounding titles that seem to earn ridicolously high salarys and seemed forever stressed and anxious but spend very little time of the story at work lol. For such stressed and busy women they do have endless time to natter away about each others lives at expensive lunches when not jetting away to sunny locations.
But the common themes remain the same whatever the settings. Cheating, jealousy, temptation, friendship, loyalty to friends over partners blah blah blah

Where are the modern black writers who break the mould and write about something frikkin else?