For Intrigue Publishing LLC, Contemporary Drama is defined as stories that express and focus on the realistic everyday lives of middle or lower classes in a certain society. According to the English Communications Syllabus, domestic drama refers to a dramatic story containing an emphasis on its “characters’ intimate relationships and their responses to [the] unfolding events in their lives.” The characters, their lives, and the events that occur within the book are usually classified as ‘ordinary’ events, lives, and characters, but this does not limit the extent of what domestic drama can represent. Domestic drama does, however, take the approach in which it “concerns people much like ourselves, taken from the lower and middle classes of society, who struggle with everyday problems such as poverty, sickness, crime, and family strife.”

Intrigue does not publish Literary Fiction. We publish commercial fiction that is geared at reaching as wide an audience as possible.

FEATURED AUTHOR

B. Swangin Webster, has been successful with contemporary drama. B Swangin Webster was named one of the top 50 must read books of 2014. Her novels are NOT street-lit which we believe tend to glorify the worst facets of inner city life. Instead, her books are powerful journeys of self-discovery and tales of family or interpersonal drama.

They are rooted in the African American community but their messages and the emotions they evoke are universal. Still, there is a specific, easily targeted market for this literature – the growing community of educated and professional African Americans. And as this writing is filled with intrigue, it fits our focus perfectly.