Overall, the Kochs found that out of 100 romance novels published in the U.S. Without them, that number drops to 4.29 percent. With Crimson Romance, Forever & Forever Yours, and Kensington included, the average representation was 6.12 percent, and 11 publishers were less racially diverse than average.
In fact, the representation found in books from those three publishers was so much higher than the other publishers that it actually skewed The Ripped Bodice's numbers a bit. Two of the 20 publishers the Kochs studied reportedly published no books by writers of color, and only three publishers - Crimson Romance (12.2 percent), Forever & Forever Yours (17.5 percent), and Kensington (19.8 percent) - had writers of color represent more than 10 percent of their catalogs. "For many years," an infographic from The Ripped Bodice reads, "the common refrain from publishers has been 'we're working on it.'" The proof is in the pudding, folks, and there's very little of it to go around. The study only focused on traditional publishers, and does not include data for self-publishing and other non-traditional publishing methods. Booksellers Leah and Bea Koch examined the catalogs for 20 publishers, and compiled the data in an infographic that alleges that less than 10 percent of the romance novels they published in 2016 were written by authors of color.
According to a new study conducted by romance novel bookstore The Ripped Bodice, romance novels have a major diversity problem.
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