Running a bit low on stock. Get yourselves down to #Supanova #SupanovaSydney and grab a book while they last. Special convention discounts still apply.

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Means and Motive was just featured in the print edition of the Franklin Journal on Friday.

You can see the electronic edition here: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=8c4c3a31-4392-42ac-9e1a-92b2801d5a8e

Or read Means and Motive for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX

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Imagine you’re a cosmic horror. You’ve devoured a thousand worlds. You’re the apex predator of the void. And then… you meet a nurse with a rubber stamp and a dad who hasn't slept since Tuesday. Yeah, that’s exactly what happens in Apex Protocol.

https://youtu.be/IIpzdgxBq_I

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#PennedPossibilities 1046 — Tell us about a time when one of your characters put their foot in their mouth.

Bolt was raised in a backwater town and now lives in the big city. In the context of her times, which are veering progressive, she often comes off as sexist. In a female-centric society, this is interesting to depict, but her comments about men, how she directly and sometimes condescendingly deals with them, and her strong awareness of having been excluded from something important to her because of her gender makes her very aware that she comes off that way. Sadly, her M.O. is not thinking first before doing, which accounts for the mass of bad things that have happened to her. There are various examples scattered through her stories of her sticking her foot in her mouth, but she's often around men, by choice and desire, so… it happens, and she works to make it better after the fact.

Usually.

One time it happens at an afterparty following a theatre premiere on what would be their Broadway and she's inebriated. The story gets told to her by a male reporter friend because she blacked-out. She puts a male actor in his place apparently for presuming to understand how women feel about sex being depicted on the stage. He wrote the play. He was the male lead. Apparently she showed him how to do what he patently got wrong the right way. In front of everyone, including reporters and critics. Lots of photographs got taken—some which she took of him and herself. Selfies. She had her camera. She's an up and coming street photographer.

Now she's famous.

Forgiven since she's a woman. A man going agro? Doing that? Not so much, despite "progressivism." Bolt? She's embarrassed.

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