There's a reason characters in “The Shade Ring Trilogy” are so diverse

Bye-bye, blue eyes. That’s one of the conclusions drawn bydemographers about Americans’ appearance in the not-too-distant future. Before I began writing “The Shade Ring” and its sequels, I researched demographic predictions. Bottom line: Americans will increasingly be more ethnically diverse due to immigration and inter-marriage. What that means is more brown eyes and fewer blue eyes, among other things. According to a recent study, half of Americans had blue eyes a century ago. Currently, on...