'Exclusive Cover Reveal: YA Novel Dreadnought'. ^ a b c d Carolyn, Cox (June 21, 2016).^ a b c d 'April Daniels Tackles Trans Teen Trouble in Superheroine Story Dreadnought'.'Interview with April Daniels (Author of DREADNOUGHT)'.

In 2018, the series was optioned for film to Wayne Brady's production company, Makin' It Up Productions. Ī third and final installment in the Nemesis series is currently in development. ĭaniels' second book, Sovereign, introduces a genderqueer superhero named Kinetiq, continues to explore the moral and mental health implications of Danny's fights with villains, and has her file for emancipation from her abusive family and find love. Nemesis series ĭaniels' first book, Dreadnought, introduces a girl named Danny Tozer who inherits the mantle of her world's foremost superhero -the eponymous Dreadnought-which gives her powers like flight and the feminine body she has wanted ever since she realized she was transgender, and thrusts her into confrontation with a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) witch and other supervillains. Daniels is also a contributor to The Mary Sue. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in literature.

She was homeless in San Francisco for a time, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. April Daniels is an American author of the Nemesis superhero trilogy.ĭaniels lived in Ashland, Oregon until she was ten years old, where she was exposed to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, before her family moved to Los Angeles, California.

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