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SUMMARY:Romance-Con Presents | Beverly Jenkins and Nikki Payne
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DESCRIPTION:Join living legend and 2017 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievem
 ent Award winner\, Beverly Jenkins\, in conversation with Nikki Payne\, fo
 r a discussion of her writing\, impact and legacy..\nhttps://toledo.libnet
 .info/event/16244821
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Romance-Con Presents is an author series d
 evoted to the Romance genre and the authors who make it everything we love
 . Each program will feature a discussion with the author\, followed by aud
 ience Q&amp\;A.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Books will be available for sale at the eve
 nt. Signing and photo opportunity to follow the talk.</p>\n<p><strong>ABOU
 T THE AUTHORS</strong><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>BEVERLY JENKINS</s
 trong></p>\n<p><strong>Beverly Jenkins</strong> is the recipient of the 20
 17 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award\, as
  well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers&rsquo\; Choice Award for histor
 ical romance.&nbsp\;She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Li
 terature\, was featured both in the documentary &ldquo\;Love Between the C
 overs&rdquo\; and on CBS Sunday Morning.</p>\n<p>Since the publication of 
 Night Song in 1994\, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance
 \, and has been a constant darling of reviewers\, fans\, and her peers ali
 ke\, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Jo
 urnal\, People Magazine\, and NPR. Her critically acclaimed Blessings seri
 es has been optioned for film by John Legend&rsquo\;s and Mike Jackson&rsq
 uo\;s production company Get Lifted\, and Hollywood and Broadway powerhous
 e Deborah Martin Chase.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>NIKKI PAYNE</stron
 g></p>\n<p>By day\, <strong>Nikki Payne</strong> is a Civic anthropologist
  building accessible government services for vulnerable populations\, by n
 ight she dreams of ways to subvert Canon literature. Hailed as "incandesce
 nt" by the Washington Post\, Nikki Payne's debut novel Pride and Protest w
 as a Phenomenal Book Club pick and was selected by the Library of Congress
  to represent the District of Columbia for the National Book Festival. Fea
 tured in the New York Times\, NPR\, Elle\, Oprah Daily and BuzzFeed\, Nikk
 i Payne is writing black women into their happily ever after.</p>\nhttps:/
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