Kennedy Ryan
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368 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Kennedy Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me tell you, in the 90s, in the 80s, in the 90s, even in the early 2000s, you were not seeing a lot of diversity on the shelves, you know, with romance novels.
Every heroine I was reading about was white and thin and blonde and blue-eyed or, you know, a quote-unquote brunette.
Yeah, I mean, they were category romance, which, you know, that's Harlequin Presents, Harlequin Romance.
It's very much like a formula usually, but it's a quick read.
It's, you know, girl meets boy and the plot will vary, you know, like with any other if with any other genre, the plot can vary.
But you're still going to have a happily ever after.
But these books were I mean, mostly there wasn't very much diversity.
You didn't see a lot of queerness.
You didn't see ethnic diversity.
You didn't see disability.
You didn't see any of those things.
It was these perfectly able bodied white women who were who were thin.
I am interested in writing the stories of people who don't typically see themselves at the center of cultural narrative.
And, you know, what I mean by that is usually it's not the, you know, usually it has been the black girl, the fat girl, the sick girl, the disabled girl.
She was the sidekick.
She was a secondary or a tertiary character.
But she certainly wasn't at the very center and she wasn't the one who was getting the happily ever after.
And I want to take those identities and those experiences and those communities that have been on the periphery of cultural narrative and set them firmly at the center.
This is the second book in the series.
The first book was a heroine who has lupus.
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