![]() ![]() ![]() Her works avoid the Smurfette Principle chiefly by casting females as the main characters. Most of her series had a quartet format until Harry Potter became a huge success and publishers realized that maybe kids will read something that's over 200 pages, and most single books from 2007 on exceed the total pagecount of her earlier quartets. She continued to do freelance writing work-radio scripts, film reviews, etc-until 1992, when she was able to make a living entirely off of her books. Pierce edited and divided the story into four parts, and the first book in the Song of the Lioness quartet was published in 1983. When Pierce moved to New York to further her publishing career, her agent said she should rework the book for the YA market. In the meantime, she told the story, with some changes in content, to the teenage girls living in the group home she worked at. Her first "professional" novel was about a girl named Alanna who dressed as a boy to become a knight, but it didn't get picked up by publishers. ![]() She noticed that a lot of fantasy stories were, for some reason, very lacking in female characters and set out to fix that herself. She got her start writing down the stories she told herself while doing her chores as a kid, both original and fanfiction for things like The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek: The Original Series. Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is a Young Adult fantasy writer best known for her Feminist Fantasy bent. ![]()
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