Welcome to VerbNoire
Editor
Mikki Kendall has had a love affair with fiction since she first understood language. As a child, she told herself her own bedtime stories and escaped to live in faraway lands regularly. In many ways, she's still living in those dreams. A creative writing class at the age of 9 set her on a path of writing fiction as a means of expression. As she grew older, she discovered fandom in all its dubious glory and learned that there was more to a good story than whether or not it was on a bestseller list. Now, prompted in part by many discussions about speculative fiction and its impact on society, she has turned attention to trying to carve out a niche in the market for people who look like her. No longer content to imagine having Rapunzel's long blond hair, she wants to give her children and all the children of the world princesses who fight for themselves and princes who don't always have to slay the dragon to be a hero.