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PAC Interview: Richard Salsbury, Take 2

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Richard Salsbury is a novelist and award-winning short story writer based in the south of England. His work has appeared in   Artificium ,   Flash Fiction Magazine ,   World Wide Writers ,   Portsmouth News , the   FairlightBooks   website and on BBC Radio. He is an editor and website designer for environmental writing project   Pens of the Earth . He also plays the guitar and brews his own beer. Loree: Richard, welcome back to my blog, and congratulations on the publication of your second novel. Richard: Thank you. It’s good to be back. Loree: Both of your books deal with some pretty weighty subjects – Mute was all about threats posed by Big Tech and toxic masculinity. And Gifts of Anger is about … what exactly? Extrajudicial justice? Or possibly a comment on the criminal justice system? Richard: I would say it’s about the difference between legality and morality. The desire to do something significant in a world where power is vested in the few....