Novelist Cat Connor’s idea for her first Conway novel, Killerbyte, came about after Cat received a string of death threats while co-running a poetry chat room, back in the days of MSN chat. The thought that people could get so nasty online fascinated her.
You’re gonna die-you bitch!
I looked at the words sitting alone on the expanse of white. A ridiculous thought occurred to me. The words were innocent. They had no volition. Just photons squirted out by a display system.
“Uh huh,” I said to myself. It was a shame this moron couldn’t see my eyes rolling.
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