It had nothing to do with royalty or secret powers or chosen ones or any of the things that people still seem so hungry for-and to be clear, those are all tropes I’ve written and tropes I like, so I get the appeal. Six of Crows was radically different from the original trilogy. Honestly, part of me thought I might be leaping off of a career cliff. Today the paperback edition of Six of Crows officially comes out, and we were excited to ask Leigh some questions about how the series has changed her for the better and what she’s looking forward to next.īardugo: It was such a challenging book to write that I just hoped I’d be able to execute the way I wanted to and that people might come along for the ride.
Her books are celebrated for not only been fantastically written but for being one of the few series with non-able-bodied leads and body diversity, on top of being racially diverse. Leigh Bardugo has become one of the most prolific writers in YA, with her Grisha Trilogy and her recent Wonder Woman: Warbringer title. #WeNeedDiverseBooks has really helped bring awareness to the needs of young people to see themselves in fiction and to the hardships surrounding authors who want to produce these works, but get told diverse books won’t sell. Still, there are plenty of young adult writers who are using their influence and platform to not only tell fun and engaging stories, but to offer representation to teenagers in their formative years.
So often it is dismissed as fluff-and quite frankly it should be allowed to be fluffy if it wants to be.
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