Today I have an awesome Guest post to share with you from the author of The Brotherhood of Dwarves series, D.A. Adams. I want to thank him for sharing this post with us and I must say I love this topic.
As a child, I remember reading The
Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, The Shannara Series, and
many other fantasy-based works that told compelling stories without
relying on gratuitous sex and foul language to keep the reader’s
attention. However, over the years, there’s been a trend in
entertainment of chasing shock value for the sake of drawing in an
audience. Books, TV shows, and movies continue to push the envelope,
ramping up sexual content, profanity, and graphic violence. When I
began pondering the concept of The Brotherhood of Dwarves, the “hole in
the market” to me was a lack of sophisticated, compelling, heroic tales
that could be read by 10 years olds yet still appeal to adults. The
works I saw geared to young adults seemed condescending and cartoonish,
dumbed-down to the point of absurdity. Everything else seemed to be
chasing the shock factor.
So before I ever wrote the first word, I
committed myself to writing the complete series without one utterance
of profanity and without more than a subtle hint of sexuality.
