September 21, 2011
A giveaway! (Update!)
I entered names into my random winner picker and I got…MARIA!! Maria, send me your detials via my contact form!
I’ll admit, this giveaway was inspired by a tweet that the Wall Street Journal did. Should Black Women Marry Outside Their Race?
My mind, ladies and gents, is boggled.
People should marry who they love. End. Of. Discussion.
In honor of this tomfoolery, or rather, to shake my fist at it, I’m giving away a copy of The Highest Price to Pay to one commenter.
This is a book about love, not color. Hooray for love!
Comments
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Can’t believe anyone is still having that conversation these days…. love is colour blind.
I’m with you, Susie. Clearly. Esp as I ran to my blog all stabbity and cranky. But hey, book giveaway so it’s not all bad!
[…] when you’re done with that, go to Maisey Yates’ site and comment there to win her interracial romance, The Highest Pri… That book has living people. In the present. Who aren’t the same shade. Getting […]
That is such a silly thing to debate about. I thought we were evolved enough to put this argument in the coffin where it belongs.
When I saw your cover, I thought how great it was to see such progress, finally, and then an article like this comes along and you realize there’s still so far to go for a lot of people.
I remember when you told me (by mean I mean Twitter) about the book group that wasn’t “racist” but felt that the book was inappropriate. As a “black” woman who has been with a “white” man for the last nine years (and two weeks), I can tell you that love knows no boundary; least of all “race”.
You love who you love and there’s nothing more to it.
Honestly, there are a lot of ethnic women who would do better to find themselves a man (no matter the race) outside of their normal community. I always hear how “black” men in those communities are no good, not doing what needs to be done to support themselves and their families and yet the women in these communities are never willing to broaden their horizons and look outside of the race barrier.
@crankyashley
I tell myself this is a generational thing that will eventually go away, but news articles like that do not help.
P.S. I want to read this book. Now! I am sure the story is fabulous since I have seen you blog and tweet about how skin is a sticking point, hers, not his, but honestly I am obsessed with the cover model ***drools*** Is it ever getting a US release?
Marlena, I would hope!
Summer, there is progress. It’s just coming slowly.
Ashley, I just think it’s like you said. You love who you love. My husband is half white and half black and I’m half white and half whiter. 😉 Love is what it’s all about. Doesn’t hurt that he’s super hot!
Erin, I’m sure it WILL have a US release, I’m just not sure when it is yet.
As a person who’ve already read THE HIGHEST PRICE TO PAY, I simply think there was no color discrimination in the story. Maisey brought the hero/heroine together with such a twist that the attraction…lol! instant!.. and love left no place for color consideration!
Having said that, I know of some of my relatives having married ‘black’ guys and very happy with them, so it doesn’t really matter if a black woman marries a white guy or vice versa, love and happiness is all that counts.
Just today I was a bit discriminated against in a bank as my surname is of a different ethnicity, hell, I’m happy so what’s it to do with other people? Anyway who really cares about people if we are happy?
I can’t believe people actually are asking that question! Reminds me of how many people freaked out when last year on one of my favourite TV series there was an interracial couple. I mean, seriously, what does it matter? I can’t believe in this time and age people are still having difficulties with that!
As a child I was in love in with a man/boy/thing? outside of my race. My family said that love was impossible! And I refused to listen to them! It didn’t matter that Gonzo was blue and I was brown or that I was human and he was not! Our love would not be denied. When I looked at Gonzo I didn’t see the color of his fur, all I saw was him! And that’s all that mattered!
You would think in the day of tech gadgets and the way people accept those, they’d accept interracial relationships too.
Hooray for love in all its beautiful colors!!
Thanks all!
Have drawn winners, and Maria, I got your name! Send me your details via my contact form!
Hi Maisey, I’ve recently entered one of your giveaways, but I’m not sure if I’m the ‘Maria’ whose name you drew. I have commented on posts of yours over at the Seven Sassy Sisters blog too.
I read The Highest Price to Pay and found the story very good. The colour of the two people involved was not an issue. I’m in an inter-racial marriage too. I’m a native northern european (Irish actually) and my marriage partner is north Indian. I never think of us as being different colours or races or whatever. He’s the perfect partner for me and I adore him. We’ve been married for seventeen years, so it’s probably safe to say it’s for keeps.
Now I understand. This is an updated post. No, that wasn’t me, but I’ve read the book anyway, so it’s okay!
Agreed!!! By the way, I love that cover, absolutely gorgeous!
Maria, sorry for the confusion! I’m glad you enjoyed Highest Price to Pay. My husband and I are interracial, and it’s a non issue for us as well, so it was really important to me to write a book that I felt reflected that. It’s the book I wanted to write from the beginning and I’m so glad I got the chance to do it!
Jessica, thank you!