To explore what happens when a person is truly stuck between a rock and a hard place. I make a point to start readers in her world with an immediate problem and avoid giving her any perfect (or obvious) choices. These experiences “made her strong” in that they hardened her shell and made her quite untrusting. Her understanding of strength wasn’t explicitly taught to her, but absorbed by the experiences she’s dealt with growing up: her mother being murdered, not knowing her absent father as a child, and growing up in a community that’s pre-judged. Her story is told in first person, so the reader is thrust into the story in the driver’s seat. In the Wings of Ebony duology, which is Wings of Ebony (book one) and Ashes of Gold (book two), I created Rue, a Black fierce teen protagonist with an unapologetic attitude.
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