Alora Factor - Williams, D L
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Soon to be thirteen-year-old Alora Factor is growing up in Hampton, VA. She's the latest in her family's long line of females fighting for social justice with their supernatural powers. She's got her best friends since preschool by her side: Andrew, a first generation Korean-American boy learning Shamanism who loves K-pop and Andrea, an outspoken Afro-Cuban trans girl who practices Santeria and is just trying to make it through puberty at the moment. Before Alora gained her powers, her biggest problem was figuring out what dress to wear for her first mixed-gender party and navigating a…mehr

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Soon to be thirteen-year-old Alora Factor is growing up in Hampton, VA. She's the latest in her family's long line of females fighting for social justice with their supernatural powers. She's got her best friends since preschool by her side: Andrew, a first generation Korean-American boy learning Shamanism who loves K-pop and Andrea, an outspoken Afro-Cuban trans girl who practices Santeria and is just trying to make it through puberty at the moment. Before Alora gained her powers, her biggest problem was figuring out what dress to wear for her first mixed-gender party and navigating a difficult relationship with her mother. On the night of Alora's awakening, her ancestors give her some of the most dangerous powers ever possessed by Factor Females. In fact, the last Factor to possess them accidentally killed herself. Not to mention that her two cousins currently in the field are reporting altercations with jumpers - beings from an unknown realm that are establishing symbiotic relationships with humans. So, on top of learning how to control dangerous powers, Alora must now fight beings from another dimension while keeping the energy of this realm in balance and still find time to just be a teenager.
Autorenporträt
When I was a little girl, my father used to make up stories about a character he called Princess Ebony. Princess Ebony was obviously me and I realized that immediately. What I didn't realize then is that he had to craft empowering stories about a young Black girl because they simply didn't exist.My first series, Alora Factor, is all of the things I wish I'd had as a child and all the things I want to see when content creators promote diversity and inclusion, but don't push for a Black female protagonist who is thick and athletic and is a bit of a nerd and has natural hair. As Toni Morrison said, "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Every book I write will be inclusive and I will continue to write the books that haven't been written for as long as I possibly can.When I'm not writing books I'm writing about clean energy and good governance for Clean Virginia or helping audio storytellers build and engage their audiences through Williams Multimedia, a company I founded in 2019. And I'm a school board member - that alone made 2021 a very interesting year to say the least. Oh, and I'm still a princess. Just ask my husband and my two sons.