Gender Equality

Somebody asked me why two girls and one boy are the heroes in "Children of the Moon". What?! My answer was: why not! Would two boys and one girl been more acceptable? I'm a girl and I've travelled and experienced a lot of real-life adventures, while I know boys, who never even left their home town.

I've modelled the characters on real-life people I know. In the story, Katherine is rather timid at first and Chryseis is sort of a tomboy and Trevor prefers it elsewhere but home because of his family situation. All three of them do clever and heroic things and have a whale of an adventurous time in my books.

I recently saw an article by Melissa Kirk from 10 March 2014 with the title " Why Boys Belong in the Kitchen and Girls in the Garage", in which the author questions gender stereotypes.

See https://www.psychologytoday.com Some good points in there as you can imagine.