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Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Tiffany Obeng

Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Tiffany Obeng. Author Shows Diverse Kids—and Parents—That Their Career Choices Are Limitless

My ALLi author guest this episode is Tiffany Obeng, a children's book author from Houston, Texas, who also works in employment law. Through her job handling job-discrimination cases, she realized that black children like her own need to be aware of all the career choices they have. That's when she really started publishing her books with a mission.
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Diversity and Inclusivity in Publishing: A Guide for Indie Authors

The lack of diversity in publishing is a problem. It's an unfortunate truth, but racism, discrimination, ableism and prejudice still tarnish the publishing industry. Today, the Alliance of Independent Author's AskALLi team alongside Eliana West, look at some of the issues in the industry and common mistakes authors make, as well as how you can avoid making them. This is inclusivity in indie publishing: a guide for authors.
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Is it Characterisation or Cultural Stereotyping?

As authors, it's important that we're free to write the things we feel most strongly about. Whether that's the travel and cultures we've experienced or the made-up fantasy worlds of our imaginations. But we also need to be sensitive to the nuanced differences between our own culture and the ones we write about. Virginia King discusses the boundary between characterisation and cultural stereotype.
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