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I was privileged to witness THE WRONG WOMAN story creation from the beginning & saw the effort @jppomare took in creating Reid, his first gay male main character.

For this post I asked @jppomare who identifies as heterosexual, where his protagonist Reid’s sexuality came from – was it @jppomare intention before he started writing that he was going to have a gay male character lead, or did he discover it as he wrote the story?

“As I learned more about Reid it made perfect sense. Conscious of, and scary, when I realised it would be worse to change him… to sacrifice that part of him out of my own fear of getting him wrong.”

I love Reid as a lead, & appreciate the time, effort & respect @jppomare took in educating himself, avoiding lazy tropes to develop a nuanced gay male character. Hopefully this is the first of Reid’s adventures.

Congratulations @jppomare and thanks for bringing Reid out into world. THE WRONG WOMAN is out @hachetteaus 27th July.

Jul
22

DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER – Real Copy

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Excited to receive my IRL 📚copies of DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER – thanks Lindy! And to have a Nancys short story published in such stellar #CrimeFiction company🤩. Thanks @craigsisterson & @clandestine press – Anthology out now 📚