Hellooo everybody! A HUGE thank you to everyone
who participated in the TSS cover reveal giveaway! Two weeks ago, I
shared the official trailer and cover for my upcoming novel,
The Savior’s Sister, companion to my best-selling dark
fantasy romance novel, The Savior's Champion. Everyone who
participated in the cover reveal had a chance to enter the giveaway and the
winner is... this person! You are walking away with a
signed copy of The Savior's Champion, as well as your very own Kindle!
A HUGE thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway! As a thank you for showing
your support and being awesome, everyone who entered is walking away
with a free teaser of The Savior’s Sister prologue!
Check your email, ‘cause the teaser will be in your inbox by the time this video
goes live! Read it, and enjoy! Moving on, I've got
ENORMOUS news. Today is the day you've been waiting for!
The Savior’s Sister is officially available for pre-order!
I've got the links listed below. Please keep in mind that
when books are made available for pre-sale,
they hit different vendors at different times. It might not be available at your
usual place, or in your preferred format right this second, but give it a few days.
I promise, it'll be there - it just needs a minute
to get in the system. As you guys already know, pre-ordering is the best,
most effective way to help your favorite authors, so as a thank you to everyone
who pre-orders The Savior's Sister in ANY format, I am holding a MASSIVE
pre-sale giveaway! Three winners are going to be walking away with HUGE
grand prize packages, including signed copies of The Savior's Sister, as well as
TSS merch - all you have to do to enter is pre-order TSS and fill out the
giveaway form listed below. It's super easy, so do it!
But wait...there's more! Three winners just doesn't feel substantial enough, so I
will be announcing additional winners throughout the
entirety of the pre-sale. Some of these winners will be walking
away with signed ARCs of The Savior's Sister,
others will be walking away with signed copies of
AMAZING novels by AMAZING authors. How many prizes am I giving away? Last I
checked, it was around thirty (30) and still growing. I will be
announcing these winners here on my channel
throughout the entire pre-sale - all you gotta do is pre-order TSS,
fill out the giveaway form below, and check out my videos to see if I call
your name! But wait...there's more...again!
As a thank you, every single person who pre-orders The Savior's Sister and
enters my giveaway will be receiving a fattie teaser of TSS!
You guys get to read the first few chapters before everyone
else! It's awesome! But wait...there's more! One more time! If you were around during
the pre-sale of The Savior's Champion, then you already know
that throughout the entire pre-sale on most weeks
I released two videos a week instead of one. For the pre-sale of TSS, I aim to do
the same thing. If you want a double dose of my
wonderful face, check out my channel on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the
TSS pre-sale! So now you guys know what you gotta do -
subscribe to my channel! You might as well...you're already gonna
be here. Pre-order TSS and get to entering - I'll see you here on
most Mondays and Wednesdays! We'll have a good time!
Moving on, in honor of Leila, the main character of my upcoming novel The Savior’s
Sister, I am breaking down my ten (10) absolute
FAVORITE tropes regarding female characters in fiction. Some of
these tropes are in The Savior's Sister. Others are in some of my favorite movies
and books. Regardless, I love them and I want more
of them. Number One (1) - Looks like a princess but
will gut you like a fish. This is listed number one for a reason! A
lot of writers are afraid to write a feminine leading lady, and I get it...
Actually no, I don't. I'm obsessed with female characters who are pretty,
and like pretty things, and enjoy shoes, and like to do their makeup,
but cross them wrong and you're gonna find their foot so far up your ass it
tickles your colon. She's shopping during the day, she's
cutting bitches at night. She's powdering her nose, she's breaking
your nose. Now she doesn't have to be physically
violent - though that is quite delightful. A strawberry shortcake who can slay a
man with her words has my heart forever and always. These
women give me everything and I am forever indebted to
their service to society. Number Two (2) - The ACTUAL badass woman.
When a writer claims a woman is a badass, and then she actually IS
a badass. She's an assassin who ACTUALLY assassinates people.
She's a warrior who battles in war. I'm kind of sad that I gotta put
this on the list, because it should be a given, but more often than not
in fiction when a woman is described as badass, she very rarely gets
opportunities to show it. So when a writer ACTUALLY shows their
‘Xena, Warrior Princess’ slaughtering the masses,
I get giddy. Look at her go! She's crazy! Again, she doesn't have to be badass in a
lethal way, but in whatever way she's badass, if
she's putting her money where her mouth is,
I'm buying it. Number Three (3) - Queens. Princesses abound in fiction - and you
know what? Princesses kind of suck. Give me a queen
and you have my full attention. Queens have power. They have experience.
They've seen some shit. I want to read about THAT bitch.
Have you ever seen a queen staring out a window, singing
‘someday my prince will come?’ FUCK, no. A queen's got shit to do. She's got
moves to make. And besides, a prince? Pfft! Bitch, please.
Queens got standards. Queens are some of my favorite female characters.
They are highly underrepresented in fiction,
and we writers need to fix that ASAP. Number Four (4) - Goddesses. I see a lot of
gods in fiction these days. Where my goddesses at?
HELLO! I love retellings about existing goddesses in mythology and fiction. I
love the creation of brand new goddesses. I love all the
goddesses. I want them all. There is something inspiring about a
celestial, powerful, heavenly woman. Likewise,
a dark, insidious, demonic queen of the underworld
is just as enticing. That could be me one day!
I just want to read about these ladies because they give me something to aspire
toward! Immortality. Endless power. Blood
sacrifices. Sign me up! Number Five (5) - Passing the Bechdel Test. If you're
unfamiliar with the Bechdel Test, it's a measure of female representation
in fiction. If a piece of media passes the Bechdel Test,
it features two or more female characters that have a conversation
at least ONCE about something other than a man.
This exists because an alarming majority of media
fails this test miserably. Horrendously. Pathetically. When a book passes the test,
it's OVERWHELMINGLY noticeable because one (1), it's rare and two (2), it's realistic.
Women speak to one another about things that don't always involve penis. It's
shocking, but it's true. Number Six (6), “Here's what we're gonna do.”
Ladies with agency are my jam. I read an article once about
how insanely common it is for women in fiction to at
some point in the story turn to a man and say, “What are we going
to do now?” I'm not saying she's got to have all the
answers, but can she at least have some of them?
She can absolutely ask for help from time to time, but can she make some
decisions for herself just as often? Why? Because that's how
human beings with developed brain capacity
function. I'm not asking for much here. Number Seven (7) - The sex
positive gal. She doesn't have to have loads of sex. She can be asexual,
or a virgin. I don't give a fuck! I just love a female character who isn't
walking around like, “Oh my God, whore! Oh my God, slut!”
Let the lady be horny. Let the lady masturbate.
If she's not the horny type, let her acknowledge that some people are,
and that's fine! I just get really excited about female characters who
don't have outdated hang-ups about sex or sexuality.
It's refreshing, because for a long time women in fiction were constantly hating
on other female characters for having sex, or not having enough sex,
or for being too sexy, or not being sexy enough,
and blah, blah, blah. I'm having an aneurysm. Now there are so many books
where female characters acknowledge that sex is a thing that exists
and that's kind of about it. Some people like it.
Some people don't. Who cares! Do you. Number Eight (8) - FUCK your love triangle. I'm
gonna be honest - I might have made this trope up.
I'm genuinely not sure. If it doesn't exist, it really should.
I want to read a book that sets up a super cliche love triangle,
and then when it comes time for the woman to choose her man,
she says, “Fuck this shit, I'm out!” The single life is the life for me.
That would be a revelation, because in most books with love triangles,
both of the dudes suck. Edward was a stalker.
Jacob assaulted her. Why don't you just go to college, Bella?
Learn to love yourself, ‘cause you make bad choices.
Number Nine (9) - The self-starter. I know everyone loves a good mentor character,
but hear me out - fuck mentors. I enjoy a female character
who doesn't have a singular person teaching her all the ways of the land.
She's gotta scour the land and learn its ways for herself.
I'm not sure why I love this trope so much. Could it be because I personally
relate? [Sarcastically] No, of course not! [Normal Voice] Yes, it is.
It's just refreshing to read about women who are treated as capable adults.
Sure they make mistakes, they fall on their ass.
But the fact is they try, WITHOUT prompting! They're out there pursuing a
goal. They don't got anyone carrying them, and
I want to read the shit out of it! And lastly Number Ten (10) - She's tall.
People are obsessed with writing teeny, tiny women.
I'm talking five feet (5’) and under. Ain't nothing wrong with a short woman.
Leila in The Savior’s Sister is a hair over five foot, three (5’3”).
But with the sheer volume of short female leads in fiction,
you'd think that the average female height is four foot, eight (4’8”).
It's five foot, four (5’4”) - if you weren't aware. Everyone's obsessed with
microscopic female leads and insanely tall
male leads, and I'm over it. I'm a tall woman,
and we never get female leads! Sure do get a lot of villains, though.
Look, even an average height woman is fine - just
anything besides a four-foot-nothing diminutive damsel.
We get it - you want your female lead to be dainty,
but you're actually just making yourself look like a creep writing about a grown
woman the size of a child. And to the very few writers out there
who give me tall leading ladies, I feel so seen! So that's all I got for
you today! If any of your favorites were on this list,
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Now, it's time for Leila’s! The Savior’s Sister,
coming soon...