She will be! The series spans her whole life. At the end of the first book she'll be 15 but it will only be a couple chapters. For most of it she's 11. I just know parts of her later life really well because I started "working" on the story 8 years ago :P
I've read some of those too though most of the writers have been working in YA which is both understandable (since "what about the children?!") and depressing (since the YA crowd needs these stories). I wonder if we learned the names of the editors involved with the decisions to keep homosexuality out of books (all of the posts I've read haven't named the editors) we'd find them to be the same few people over and over ... I know who John's editor is and she's clearly open to queer characters but that's only one person. And I wonder if certain publishers are more open to it than others. I know Tor and Eos have been, I think Daw has been but don't quote me on that.
no subject
I've read some of those too though most of the writers have been working in YA which is both understandable (since "what about the children?!") and depressing (since the YA crowd needs these stories). I wonder if we learned the names of the editors involved with the decisions to keep homosexuality out of books (all of the posts I've read haven't named the editors) we'd find them to be the same few people over and over ... I know who John's editor is and she's clearly open to queer characters but that's only one person. And I wonder if certain publishers are more open to it than others. I know Tor and Eos have been, I think Daw has been but don't quote me on that.