Reading helps you understand another person’s truth, and gives you the tools to share your own truth with people you may never even meet.

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men’s clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more?

‎YA heroines can choose to have sex & they can choose not to without either decision becoming the focus of their story.

YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO!

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine

It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.

My life had become one long cliffhanger

Reading helps you understand another person's truth, and gives you the tools to share your own truth with people you may never even meet