Thanks for verbalizing this. Part of me gets silly in response (are we determining "good" by critical response or by sales? Instead of those "most powerful" lists, can we see "crimes we'd give them a pass on"?). But then I look at my 12-year-old and his friends, and my jokes collapse. I don't want to participate in a world where it would be okay for any kind of person to assault them.

I was struck by how short the bits are in your photo--the backstory and description are throughout, just phrases and sentences here and there, rather than in big blocks. I'll bet this makes the reading flow more--you're not thinking, oh, here's the character's past or whatever. With description, especially, sometimes I forget that all it takes is a word ("green" ... "shiny") to distinguish or start an image forming. Ann