Leah Koch:

I think that attitude has changed a lot throughout my lifetime, throughout even the amount of time we have been doing this. But it definitely still persists.

The thing that I have noticed is people in general, but especially younger people, are getting much better at identifying how things like misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia are impacting the stories that they’re being told. So older generations were told, this is trashy, this is silly, this is — should be read under the cover of darkness.

Well, why do you think that? Like, who’s been telling you this? Like, what has led to you having this belief? Because romance is a huge genre.