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May 29, 2019
Hi! Just finished reading A Chip and a Chair and it was amazing! I was so sure I knew who the SOS was all along but boy was I surprised! so did not see that coming. Also, I’ve been following you since the beginning of Blood Red, and hopefully it’s not too
Also Also, If you need any help in the future or have any questions regarding Hebrew words or jewish culture and you need someone else to brainstorm with, I'll be happy to help. There's a part in CP where the word "Tembel" was used and in my opinion that word doesn't match the characters personality, I would have used a different one. Just a thought, though, if you're ever planning to publish it as a book, and I hope you will someday, Because it was awesome :) xoxo (2/2)
Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m so flattered that you’ve stuck with me for so long and have been enjoying my authorial journey along with me. I always love hearing from people who have been with me since those early days!
As for Close Protection, to be totally honest, I don’t remember the moment you’re referring to at all. LOL! In fact, I now associate the acronym “CP” with Cash Plays, and had a moment of great confusion when I first read this message. ;-)
I haven’t read Close Protection since I finished writing it 7 years ago. But after my grandmother passed away a few years after that, I felt driven to establish a stronger connection to my own Jewishness, so I can assure you that I’m in a much different place there in 2019 than I was in 2012. Thank you for the offer, though!
Hi! Just finished reading A Chip and a Chair and it was amazing! I was so sure I knew who the SOS was all along but boy was I surprised! so did not see that coming. Also, I've been following you since the beginning of Blood Red, and hopefully it's not too
Also Also, If you need any help in the future or have any questions regarding Hebrew words or jewish culture and you need someone else to brainstorm with, I’ll be happy to help. There’s a part in CP where the word “Tembel” was used and in my opinion that word doesn’t match the characters personality, I would have used a different one. Just a thought, though, if you’re ever planning to publish it as a book, and I hope you will someday, Because it was awesome :) xoxo (2/2)
Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m so flattered that you’ve stuck with me for so long and have been enjoying my authorial journey along with me. I always love hearing from people who have been with me since those early days!
As for Close Protection, to be totally honest, I don’t remember the moment you’re referring to at all. LOL! In fact, I now associate the acronym “CP” with Cash Plays, and had a moment of great confusion when I first read this message. ;-)
I haven’t read Close Protection since I finished writing it 7 years ago. But after my grandmother passed away a few years after that, I felt driven to establish a stronger connection to my own Jewishness, so I can assure you that I’m in a much different place there in 2019 than I was in 2012. Thank you for the offer, though!
May 26, 2019
Does krav maga teach you how to get out of a fireman's carry if someone is carrying you over their shoulder?
There are no specific techniques that I know of to get out of a fireman’s carry that you’re already in, but there are plenty to prevent it from happening in the first place! For example, there’s a technique to halt someone who’s rushing you from the front in an attempt to get their arms around your waist (I think I actually had Levi use that, or a modified version of it, in one of the SoS books). There’s also a really cool technique for escaping a front bear hug that’s lifting you off your feet.
Krav Maga practitioners would consider the fact that you got put into an unwilling fireman’s carry to mean that you already failed at like three different points along the way. Of course, that doesn’t mean they’d say you should just give up if it happened! A fireman’s carry is a terrible way to hold an unwilling person - the attacker is put off balance, trying to use one arm to restrain someone who’s probably thrashing and squirming, and the defender’s hands are totally free.
Off the top of my head, you could start grabbing things out of the attacker’s pants pockets and throw them as distractions or use them as weapons. Grab the attacker’s keys and stab them repeatedly into the attacker’s kidneys. (You could probably get a few solid hammerfists to the kidneys as well.) Get your hands under their shirt and tear their skin up with your nails. Bite whatever you can reach. Just really get in there and ruin their day.
Unless there was a truly significant size difference between the attacker and the defender, it shouldn’t be too hard for a determined defender to get out of a fireman’s carry, although it wouldn’t be graceful. The fireman’s carry and the more military-style version (where the person being carried is draped over both of your shoulders, and you’re holding one arm and one leg) are specifically designed to transport people who are either willing or unconscious. An attacker who knew what they were doing would never attempt to carry a victim this way without knocking the victim out first, or at the very least restraining the person’s hands and feet.
May 23, 2019
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May 7, 2019
Gravity Cover Release Party!
I am thrilled to share with everyone the cover of my third book, Gravity, designed by the always magnificent Kirby Crow, who also designed the cover of Under the Knife!
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May 4, 2019
OMG I was NOT expecting that answer at all!!
When you’re considering Vaughn’s motivations, you have to keep in mind that he’s a genuine psychopath. He has no empathy. He is incapable of thinking from another person’s perspective. To him, he is the only person who is actually real, and everyone else is a bit player on his stage - projections of his own desires, rather than people in their own right.
What Vaughn thinks he wants is a romantic relationship with someone who knows what he’s really like. But what he actually wants is the fantasy he’s created of that relationship, in which he does whatever the hell he likes and his partner lovingly and happily caters to his every need and desire. What he wants is impossible, because it doesn’t take into account that the other person in the relationship would be a real human being instead of a projection.
The closest Vaughn can come to that fantasy is with a person like Desi, who already had multiple risk factors in place that made him more susceptible to manipulation and emotional abuse. What Vaughn has done to Desi would never have worked on Allison, and he knows that.
Not all of these decisions are operating on a conscious level; some of them are more the subconscious instincts of a predator. Desi is a very strong person in general, but his specific weaknesses were exactly the ones most useful for Vaughn’s purposes. Vaughn’s psychopathic brain interpreted this as Desi being the perfect partner for him, whereas from an external perspective, it’d be more accurate to say that Desi was the perfect target for him.
OMG I was NOT expecting that answer at all!!
When you’re considering Vaughn’s motivations, you have to keep in mind that he’s a genuine psychopath. He has no empathy. He is incapable of thinking from another person’s perspective. To him, he is the only person who is actually real, and everyone else is a bit player on his stage - projections of his own desires, rather than people in their own right.
What Vaughn thinks he wants is a romantic relationship with someone who knows what he’s really like. But what he actually wants is the fantasy he’s created of that relationship, in which he does whatever the hell he likes and his partner lovingly and happily caters to his every need and desire. What he wants is impossible, because it doesn’t take into account that the other person in the relationship would be a real human being instead of a projection.
The closest Vaughn can come to that fantasy is with a person like Desi, who already had multiple risk factors in place that made him more susceptible to manipulation and emotional abuse. What Vaughn has done to Desi would never have worked on Allison, and he knows that.
Not all of these decisions are operating on a conscious level; some of them are more the subconscious instincts of a predator. Desi is a very strong person in general, but his specific weaknesses were exactly the ones most useful for Vaughn’s purposes. Vaughn’s psychopathic brain interpreted this as Desi being the perfect partner for him, whereas from an external perspective, it’d be more accurate to say that Desi was the perfect target for him.
OMG I was NOT expecting that answer at all!!
When you’re considering Vaughn’s motivations, you have to keep in mind that he’s a genuine psychopath. He has no empathy. He is incapable of thinking from another person’s perspective. To him, he is the only person who is actually real, and everyone else is a bit player on his stage - projections of his own desires, rather than people in their own right.
What Vaughn thinks he wants is a romantic relationship with someone who knows what he’s really like. But what he actually wants is the fantasy he’s created of that relationship, in which he does whatever the hell he likes and his partner lovingly and happily caters to his every need and desire. What he wants is impossible, because it doesn’t take into account that the other person in the relationship would be a real human being instead of a projection.
The closest Vaughn can come to that fantasy is with a person like Desi, who already had multiple risk factors in place that made him more susceptible to manipulation and emotional abuse. What Vaughn has done to Desi would never have worked on Allison, and he knows that.
Not all of these decisions are operating on a conscious level; some of them are more the subconscious instincts of a predator. Desi is a very strong person in general, but his specific weaknesses were exactly the ones most useful for Vaughn’s purposes. Vaughn’s psychopathic brain interpreted this as Desi being the perfect partner for him, whereas from an external perspective, it’d be more accurate to say that Desi was the perfect target for him.
OMG I was NOT expecting that answer at all!!
When you’re considering Vaughn’s motivations, you have to keep in mind that he’s a genuine psychopath. He has no empathy. He is incapable of thinking from another person’s perspective. To him, he is the only person who is actually real, and everyone else is a bit player on his stage - projections of his own desires, rather than people in their own right.
What Vaughn thinks he wants is a romantic relationship with someone who knows what he’s really like. But what he actually wants is the fantasy he’s created of that relationship, in which he does whatever the hell he likes and his partner lovingly and happily caters to his every need and desire. What he wants is impossible, because it doesn’t take into account that the other person in the relationship would be a real human being instead of a projection.
The closest Vaughn can come to that fantasy is with a person like Desi, who already had multiple risk factors in place that made him more susceptible to manipulation and emotional abuse. What Vaughn has done to Desi would never have worked on Allison, and he knows that.
Not all of these decisions are operating on a conscious level; some of them are more the subconscious instincts of a predator. Desi is a very strong person in general, but his specific weaknesses were exactly the ones most useful for Vaughn’s purposes. Vaughn’s psychopathic brain interpreted this as Desi being the perfect partner for him, whereas from an external perspective, it’d be more accurate to say that Desi was the perfect target for him.
OMG I was NOT expecting that answer at all!!
When you’re considering Vaughn’s motivations, you have to keep in mind that he’s a genuine psychopath. He has no empathy. He is incapable of thinking from another person’s perspective. To him, he is the only person who is actually real, and everyone else is a bit player on his stage - projections of his own desires, rather than people in their own right.
What Vaughn thinks he wants is a romantic relationship with someone who knows what he’s really like. But what he actually wants is the fantasy he’s created of that relationship, in which he does whatever the hell he likes and his partner lovingly and happily caters to his every need and desire. What he wants is impossible, because it doesn’t take into account that the other person in the relationship would be a real human being instead of a projection.
The closest Vaughn can come to that fantasy is with a person like Desi, who already had multiple risk factors in place that made him more susceptible to manipulation and emotional abuse. What Vaughn has done to Desi would never have worked on Allison, and he knows that.
Not all of these decisions are operating on a conscious level; some of them are more the subconscious instincts of a predator. Desi is a very strong person in general, but his specific weaknesses were exactly the ones most useful for Vaughn’s purposes. Vaughn’s psychopathic brain interpreted this as Desi being the perfect partner for him, whereas from an external perspective, it’d be more accurate to say that Desi was the perfect target for him.
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