After a brief hiatus from writing, I have returned to bring another story to Royal Road just in time for the Write-a-thon! Then I just had to get a bit clever and bring two! It's a bit of a social experiment that I know you, my wonderful readers who made it all the way to the end of Nemesis Quest will forgive me for.

As you probably know, I wrote the "falling in love with the reader" part of Nemesis Quest because I fell in love with a prompt about how a character in the book slowly fell in love with the reader over time. This time I read another prompt - I know, you're rolling your eyes at me, but I couldn't resist. One female author was saying to another female author that she should have written a main character as a guy instead of a gal. Well, with all the social experiments and stuff floating about, I wondered.... would it make a difference?

So, first I wrote Like or Death, a dystopian satire about a future AI-assisted society in which our lovely heroine, a die-hard introvert, is arrested for social ineptitude (like with the Black Mirror Episode about social media) and sentenced to 2 years or 1 million viewers in a VR TV series on NOOB, the YouTube channel that hosts all new programming.

This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it

And it was fun until we female authors sat around griping about shit...and I thought, fine, I can do that... Let's test this theory. I generally write in the first person using female leads that are at least slightly neurotic (okay, a lot neurotic). What would happen if I used the same premise and even the same whole book BUT changed it to the third person and used a male lead?

I was shocked at the result!

So I took Like or Death and changed it just a little and called it Social In-Justice. I put it in the third-person perspective and then changed the lead from female to male. Janet became Joe and all my I's and me's became his/him. I did very little other editing and began to publish it.

Now I'm asking you... my favorite readers ever... the ones I fell in love with in Nemesis Quest! Go read these new books and tell me which one you like better! Leave a comment here to tell me why. To be perfectly honest, even I liked Social In-Justice better and some of my female author cohorts agree, but what do we know!! We need you to help us out!

The first book, Like or Death, is still in progress and if you hurry, you can participate in polls that will actually effect the plot of the book in its final third act.