Guest Post from Lance Erlick: Writing a Female Protagonist (Crossing Gender)

*Today I have a guest post from Lance Erlick, author of The Rebel Trap, now available. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end of this post!*

I’ve been asked about my choice to write in the point of view of a female protagonist.

In reading and writing other stories, I’ve experienced getting into a character’s head. For The Rebel Within and The Rebel Trap Annabelle got into mine, and wouldn’t let go until I wrote her story. I felt I was seeing her world through her eyes and imagining how I/she would deal with the crises in her life.

At first I worried about attempting such a strong female perspective, but I had just finished reading Elizabeth Moon’s The Speed of Dark, in which she tells the story in the point of view of an autistic boy. I believe she handled gender quite well, and hopefully I’ve brought lessons from her writing into my stories.

Other stories rattle around my head, but I’ll always look at Annabelle as a big inspiration.

Title: The Rebel Trap

Series: Rebel #2

Author: Lance Erlick

Publication Date: October 1, 2014

Genre: YA Sci-Fi

Synopsis

Voices in 16-year-old Annabelle Scott’s head aren’t God or signs she’s going mad—yet. Despite being a Mech Warrior recruit, she rebels against her post-Second Civil War society by not only refusing to kill Morgan, a boy she’s attracted to, but also helping him escape.

Annabelle’s commander gives her auditory implants and contact cams for an undercover assignment to investigate her corrupt police captain. Morgan hacks the implants to plead for her help in freeing his brother. As a pawn in a bigger game, can she find a way to help Morgan and discover the link between an attempted assassination of her adoptive mom, the geek institute, and her police captain without falling into a trap, being exiled and separated from family, or getting herself and those she cares about killed?
The Rebel Trap was written as a standalone story, but also follows Annabelle’s adventures from The Rebel Within.

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Author Bio

Lance Erlick grew up in various parts of the United States and Europe. He took to stories as his anchor and was inspired by his father’s engineering work on cutting-edge aerospace projects to look to the future. He studied creative writing at Northwestern University and University of Iowa.

He writes science fiction, dystopian and young adult stories and likes to explore the future implications of social and technological trends. He’s the author of The Rebel Within, The Rebel Trap, and Rebels Divided, three books in the Rebel series. In those stories, he flips traditional exploitation to explore the effects of a world that discriminates against males and the consequences of following conscience for those coming of age.

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