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 Kelley Armstrong who contributed her original story Happy Birthday Baby to our 1st charity anthology, GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE. Kelley believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.
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- 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?
I love the work The Pixel Project does and was delighted to contribute a story. Mine is about a woman honoring her deceased sister’s birthday by confronting her killer.
- Why do you think book lovers should read or listen to GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE?
There can be a misconception that stories dealing with violence against women will be didactic rather than entertaining, and this collection absolutely is not. These are entertaining stories that also promise the satisfaction of well-earned revenge.
- Any final thoughts about why everyone should support stopping violence against women?
It is so pervasive that even when my stories aren’t about that, it often lurks in the background (some character in the story is dealing with or has dealt with it, often in a secondary way, through a friend or relative). And even that is far from actually representing the statistics correctly. It’s trauma that reaches far beyond the victim/survivor and trauma that affects everyone – men and women.