Why do so many authors write in a girls perspective? Is it because it is easier to write than a boys perspective? Or is it because girls but the books and mostly read?

Hmm… I don’t think a character’s gender makes him or her easier to write. And I can’t speak for other authors, but when I began work on Shadow and Bone, I didn’t think, “I should write a story with a female heroine because ladies like that.” I sat down to tell the story in my head and that happened to focus on a sour, scrawny refugee from Ravka.

I also think readers (male and female) are willing to read across gender lines.

That said, while I’m seeing more male POV and multiple POV in YA, there’s no question that female POV (as first person or third person assigned) still dominates the Young Adult category. Why? Well, I think it’s worth noticing that this definitely isn’t true for the rest of fiction.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons YA is so popular. Maybe the market wanted more and different stories told from the female perspective. Maybe readers were hungry for them.

In YA, we get books that give what girls and women think, feel, and desire a position of primacy. I suspect this freaks people out a little (a lot) and that’s why we get so much handwringing over Young Adult and now New Adult.