There's a massive battle happening in the romance novel industry right now

The massively lucrative world of romance novel publishing suffered an intense series of controversies in recent weeks, after a trade association of nearly 10,000 genre writers moved to censure one of its high-profile members over comments she made on Twitter about another author’s work. The controversy broke out late last month, when the Romance Writers Of America announced intentions to take disciplinary action against author Courtney Milan—a former member of the group’s board of directors, and a vocal proponent for more and better diversity in the field—over Twitter comments she made last August, dubbing author Kathryn Lynn Davis’ 1999 book Somewhere Lies The Moon “a fucking racist mess.” Milan, herself a half-Chinese person, raised numerous objections on social media about the book’s depiction of Chinese culture and its half-Chinese protagonist.