![]() ![]() The book highlights 100 strong-willed women of history (and a handful from myth) with cocktail party-level-vernacular tellings of their stories – although thoroughly-researched, and accompanied by a full-page color illustration imagining them as the lead for an animated movie. What can readers expect from Rejected Princesses? In a previous life, I used to work at DreamWorks Animation and before that I was just some random white guy from Kentucky. ![]() My name’s Jason! I write and illustrate a blog (turned book!) called Rejected Princesses, where I put the spotlight on badass historical women nobody’s heard about, while subverting the “animated princess” archetype by drawing them in that style. ![]() Thank you so much for joining us and signing our stock! For readers less familiar with your work, can you please tell us briefly a little about yourself and your writing? How would you like us to introduce you? Since the bunch of us at the bookstore are especially fond of this sort of princess tale, we are especially thrilled to carry the book-signed!-in the store for all our patrons who wish to inspire the princesses and princess-lovers in their life this holiday season. Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester is happy to shine our Author Spotlight on Jason Porath, author of Rejected Princesses, a blog-turned-book about women in history that Disney or other cartoons are not likely to animate stories about. ![]()
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