Guest Post: Gender Swapping Characters

I’m honored to visit the blog of my friend, and sometimes editor, David Lee Summers. Sometimes you set out to write a story and every character turns out to be some sort of negative stereotype. This is how I re-imagined The Tower in the Mist and made the story much stronger.

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Today, I’d like to welcome author Deby Fredericks to my blog. I’ve had the honor of editing her novels The Grimhold Wolf and Seven Exalted Orders. I enjoy her writing and she has a new book out called The Tower in the Mist. In it, she presents a group of non-traditional warriors. Presenting characters in non-traditional gender roles is something I have done as well, and I thought it would be interesting to hear Deby’s take on this subject. Without further ado, I’ll turn it over to Deby.

When I began writing The

Tower in the Mist, I did not plan to include a group of Amazonian

warrior-women. A woman mage had been captured by warriors who served an evil

wizard. But the more I worked on that setting, in the Land of Skaythe, the more
I realized that the minions of an evil wizard were also…

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