D. Hale Rambo’s debut novel puts diversity front and center D. Hale Rambo describes herself as a “nerdy, book-loving Black woman” who grew up loving to read, but never seeing someone like her as the main character in any of the books she read.
Now as an adult, she is combining her love of books, her love of story-telling and her love of the world of Dungeons and Dragons to create stories that bring the diversity of the world — both real and imagined — into leading roles.
The author and Dungeon Master sat down recently to answer a few questions about how the characters of her first book, Tools of a Thief, came to life and why, as a straight woman, she chose to make her main protagonists lesbian. — Tammye Nash Dallas Voice: How long have you