“…and she called me and said she wanted to buy the book!” Black Historical Romance novelist Beverly Jenkins shares her journey to publishing her first novel, from a mountain of rejection letters to her own success story. Listen to more in our episode "Lessons From the Elders Series: Remember the Ancestors - Author Beverly Jenkins".
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