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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....

The past few months have been filled with activities revolving around the Portsmouth Authors Collective - all of which have have required lots of time and energy and organisation - things that are in short supply in my world. Hence, it 's been a shameful length of time since I posted my last author interview.   Forgive me. * The Portsmouth Authors Collective   seeks to put the spotlight on local talent who live in and/or take inspiration from the city and its surrounding areas. I was thrilled, therefore, to be asked to interview Richard Salsbury a couple of months ago at the launch of his debut novel Mute . Here, we reprise that interview for this blog and for the PAC website .    Author Bio: 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 websit...