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, comment them below! If I missed some of
your favorites, comment them below as well!
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pre-sale RIGHT NOW, and don't forget to enter my
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everyone who enters. All you gotta do is pre-order The Savior’s Sister
and enter the giveaway form listed below. Get on it! Do it! You won't regret it! And
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Bye! [Foreboding Male Voice] You've read Tobias’ story. Now, it's time for Leila’s! The Savior’s
Sister, coming soon...
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