{"id":12098,"date":"2011-01-12T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2011-01-12T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:20:39","slug":"barry-interviewed-on-%e2%80%9chey-women-comics%e2%80%9d-and-why-having-good-female-characters-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12098","title":{"rendered":"Barry Interviewed on \u201cHey, Women! Comics!\u201d (And why having good female characters matters.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blog “Hey, Women! Comics!” has posted an interview with me<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here’s a bit from the interview; there’s more at the link.<\/p>\n

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HWC<\/strong>: What sort of woman do you think Hereville best appeals to?<\/p>\n

BD<\/strong>: I’m not sure! I’ve noticed that most of Hereville’s reviewers are female, though, so there must be some appeal there.<\/p>\n

I intended Hereville to be a feminist book – not in the sense of being over-the-top or preachy, but int he sense of writing a book with a kick-ass but not perfect female protagonist, and with a lot of female characters who actually matter to the story (especially Mirka’s not-at-all-evil stepmother, Fruma.) I often read books to my two honorary nieces, Sydney and Maddox, and they’re always very aware of if a book has girl characters they can relate to or not; without any prompting from me, they’re always asking “is this one a girl?” and pointing to the female characters and saying “I’m her!” So I think it’s important.<\/p>\n

I think any reader who likes fun, character-based fantasy stories could enjoy Hereville.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blog “Hey, Women! Comics!” has posted an interview with me. Here’s a bit from the interview; there’s more at the link. HWC: What sort of woman do you think Hereville best appeals to? BD: I’m not sure! I’ve noticed that most of Hereville’s reviewers are female, though, so there must be some appeal there. […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}