The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.
Pretty girls have problems too.
Books are my weakness.
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.
The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.