Available on Amazon. Bec Woods works in systems of care (welfare) and watched them calcify to control over the past two decades. Now she has written a dystopian novel that enacts that horror. What happens when you’re trained in a system of care, that begins to fail? You’re complicit, perpetuate, manage the very system that oppresses.
I was asked recently, why do I take real world oppression and make it dystopian? And I think it’s because some people can’t handle the accuracy of that reality. Take The Handmaids Tale, women in all corners of the Earth have felt the reality of the novel, yet reading it as dystopian, makes it more palatable. Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room! Dystopia is not that far removed from reality. Am I right?
Writing a trilogy and I’m curious. How long do you wait? The next book could be 6 months, a year or like tv series nowadays, years. What’s your preference? Or do you wait for the complete set?