Vernie♡ asked Kasie West:

Do you plan to write more diverse characters in your future books? Not that I don't love your books (which I of course do), I would just love to see more diversity within your stories.

Kasie West I plan to do my best in this endeavor. I am a very big proponent of #ownvoices. I really really feel like a person of different ethnicity/culture to my own can tell a story representing that ethnicity/culture much better than I can. Which is why I support as much as possible diverse authors. I want to see people of all races, sexes, identities writing stories. That said, I do think it's important to have diverse representation in my books and I will admit that I haven't done the best job of that. I've tried in the past. Charlie, in ON THE FENCE, is hispanic. Tic in THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US is black. I've had many side characters of different races. In my next book out, LUCKY IN LOVE, the love interest is Vietnamese. But yes, you are right, the majority of my characters are white. I'm a work in progress and I'm hoping to improve on my representation. Thanks so much for the question. :)

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