I recently contacted Jennifer Marie Brisset, a Jamaican-American Speculative writer. You can visit her website at: http://www.jennbrissett.com/. Recently, she gave me list of writers of African descent that are making a splash.
Karen Lord (Barbados)
http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2010/07/06/redemption-in-indigo-2/
Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaican-Canadian)
http://nalohopkinson.com/
Helen Oyeyemi (Nigerian-British)
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59813
David Anthony Durham (Caribbean descent)
http://www.davidanthonydurham.com/
Tobias S. Buckell (Grenada)
http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/
You may have heard of some of the authors, all them you will most definitely see more of as big publishers realize the potential of the growing appetite for spec fiction featuring people of color. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines; Black spec novels could become very trendy in a few months.
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