Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and romance novelist Stacey Abrams is using her connections in the literary community to raise big money ahead of the state’s Senate runoff election scheduled for January.
Four romance novelists who write under the shared pen name Kit Rocha announced their “Romancing the Runoff” event to raise $20,000 for the New Georgia Project and Fair Fight, two nonprofit organizations founded by Abrams.
“A big part of it is because Stacey Abrams was so instrumental in establishing Fair Fight,” Courtney Milan, who is one part of Kit Rocha, told the New York Times. “Someone who sees that possibility for hope, and works to make it come to pass, is a quintessentially romance thing. You could just drown in pessimism, but she didn’t.”
Organizers of the fundraiser raffled off over 3,000 items, including a signed hardback edition of Rules of Engagement, Abrams’s debut novel.
