New from the publishing industry: Crimson Romance, Simon & Schuster’s “diverse romance” imprint, recently announced on Twitter that it will close. The Book Riot blog reports: “The Ripped Bodice, a Los Angeles romance bookstore whose owners recently published a report on the state of diversity in the genre, retweeted the announcement, noting that Crimson Romance is the only romance publisher that published at least 25% books by authors of color last year (the next highest was 12.6%). Members of the romance community expressed their disappointment in the decision.”

We’re awfully glad to know that the “romance community,” like other communities, is equipped with its own diversity watchdogs, ready and able to publish reports on the number of minority or otherwise marginalized practitioners it generates.