Ann Aguirre
Ann Aguirre
Ann Aguirre is an American author of speculative fiction. She writes urban fantasy, romantic science fiction, apocalyptic paranormal romance, paranormal romantic suspense, and post-apocalyptic dystopian young-adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
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Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
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Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
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Not just when its easy. All the time.
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It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.
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I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.
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People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'
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My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
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Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
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Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.
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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.
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I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.
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The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.