As part of The Pixel Project’s Read For Pixels campaign, we interview authors from genres as diverse as Science Fiction and Fantasy to Romance to Horror about why they support the movement to end violence against women and girls.
For Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024, we present an interview with Read For Pixels author Kaaron Warren who contributed her original story The Steering Wheel Club to our 1st charity anthology, GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE. Kaaron Warren is a multi-award-winning Australian writer based in Canberra, Australia. She’s sold over 200 short stories to publications big and small around the world, including Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best. Her latest novel THE UNDERHISTORY, from Viper Books, was described in the Guardian as ‘a beautifully constructed, suspenseful gothic tale’.
Inspired to support The Pixel Project’s anti-violence against women work? Make a donation to us today OR buy the audiobook edition of our 1st charity anthology, GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE OR buy our 1st poetry collection, UNDER HER EYE. All donations and net proceeds from book sales go towards supporting our campaigns, programmes, and initiatives.
- Why did you decide to contribute a story to The Pixel Project’s GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE charity anthology and what is your story about?
The Pixel Project is a very worthy cause and I was impressed with the concept and execution of the anthology. Stories are such an effective way to reach new audiences and hopefully to help change behaviour.
My story is about a men’s club called The Steering Wheel Club, which is filled with steering wheels people have died behind. The main character is an abusive, unrepentant man who finds true punishment behind one of these wheels.
- Why do you think book lovers should read or listen to GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE?
This is a book filled with brilliant stories. Read it for the fiction, not just because it is a good cause.
- Any final thoughts about why everyone should support stopping violence against women?
We need to be there for the women who are in awful circumstances, and we need to hold a mirror up to aggressive behaviour.