and that is why my MC for this and my next books are mixed race like me. So that other little girls can see themselves in the pages

today little girls like me <voracious eaters of books> might have a better chance at seeing themselves & feel like they can be the heroine of the story, instead of the humourous best friend, or sidekick or not existing at all… they can be swashbuckling, strong, badass & beautiful. beautiful is important. I grew up in a place where sometimes being brown meant being less beautiful & many other other things. 

It is damaging 4 a teen to see that your skin color makes you lesser, less beautiful, less intelligent, less worthy of friendship or respect. When those attitudes are upheld by a generations of a good chunk of society… it can be hard to believe that they are a lie. Thats why I’m glad I also lived in London, where nobody even noticed what race you were. Where everything depended on your actions. Without that i might have bought into the lies that surrounded me in my adolescence.

Just feast your eyes on these beauties!