Longer thought pieces on books and publishing.
Readers, if you want to make a difference but feel a bit powerless as to how, I promise you it doesn’t take much. Just one tiny shift in your book buying habits can cascade into a life-changing impact.
I discovered Tamora Pierce’s books as a girl, in my library, after school. By then, I had read loads of epic and heroic fantasy…and I had internalized a pattern: boys got to be the Chosen Ones who would ride dragons and defeat evil, while girls—common-born or royalty or exotic foreigner—were merely the pretty (always, always, […]