Description: MJ Gardner, author of Evelyn's Journal and Joe Vampire (Darkness & Light vampire series) and other dark fiction.
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As a child, MJ Gardner liked adventure books and spooky stories but often didn't see people like themself represented in ways that appealed to them. Women served tea, or needed rescuing, or were completely absent. Wanting to see women & girls in active roles Gardner started writing female characters into her versions of these stories. Her first novella-length work, written at age 11, was a reworking of Lord of the Flies . It was just as bad as you imagine it to be. But they got better at it. Gardner won wri