The REJECTED PRINCESSES book features exclusively, and for the first time, a huge number of new stories of fearless femmes and distressing damsels. Fun, feminist, and educational, the REJECTED PRINCESSES anthology proves that—spoiler alert—women have been kicking butt for a long, long time and will continue to do so.

A few of the many ‘Princesses’ included in this new book are:

Moremi Ajasoro (12th century, Nigeria), “Spy Queen of the Yoruba:” Moremi boldly defied village elders by staying put during a spirit invasion, only to find that the invading “spirits” were merely men from the neighboring tribe in elaborate straw suits, there to steal their food. She married the leader of the tribe, got her new husband drunk, escaped, and revealed the truth to her village: that the spirits were mortal, and all too flammable.
Annie Jump Cannon (1863—1941, United States), was a deaf scientist who revolutionized astronomy. A member of the Harvard Computers—an all-female team of astronomy analysts who worked for Edward Pickering in the early 1900s—Cannon categorized 350,000 stars over the course of her phenomenal career. To this day the classification system she created is the defacto standard for cataloging stars.
Ching Shih (1775-1844, China): A former prostitute turned pirate commander of a fleet numbering over 70,000 men… enough said.
The Night Witches (c. 1940s, Russia): This fearless, all-female group of untrained civilian volunteers became one of the most decorated divisions of the Soviet military during World War II. The Night Witches accomplished an incredible amount with slow, flammable trainer planes, dropping bombs on the Germans (as they did every three minutes, every night, for three years).
Phoolan Devi (1963-2001, India): This unbelievably resilient and ruthless “Bandit Queen of India” went through hell and back as a mallah, one of the lowest of the low in the Indian caste system. After enduring a childhood of abuse, forced marriage, and sexual violence, she began loudly protesting her treatment – only to be kidnapped by a bandit gang, who were hired to get rid of her. That didn’t happen. Instead, after horrific struggle, she took command of her own bandit gang, and roaming rural India and terrorizing the unjust—part Robin Hood, part goddess of vengeance. After turning herself in, she ran for national parliament…and won!