Yvonne Girl

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My fourth story and second novel-length work, “Yvonne Girl” was borne out of my love for TG fiction stories about an escalating power struggle, with both parties too stubborn to back down until someone goes over the brink. Inspired by StacyInLove’s “Don’t Blink” and MelissaN’s “Tug of War,” I knew I wanted to blend those transgender fiction themes with a political thriller. Yvonne combines the cynical power dynamics of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the intimate political character work of Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place, and the psychological manipulation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. The question that drove me was: what if someone’s greatest character flaw wasn’t a moral failing, but the desperate need to matter? And what if someone brilliant enough saw that flaw and knew exactly how to exploit it?

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