Gail Shepherd asked Lillian Clark:

Lillian, I just finished reading the ARC of Immoral Code, and I was blown away by your knowledge of how high-level hacking works. Your character Nari is involved in "Minor espionage and extralegal social justice on the Darknet." How do you know so much about coding -- or how did you research this aspect of the book?

Lillian Clark Thank you Gail!! I am actually not at all a computer whiz (ha, I probably lose points for even using the term "computer whiz"), so I had to research this pretty steadily as I wrote. I started by reading a fabulous book by Gabriella Coleman called HACKER, HOAXER, WHISTLEBLOWER, SPY: THE MANY FACES OF ANONYMOUS, and used that as my jumping-off point for research. Coleman's books was great for pointing me in the right direction for terminology and modes, which I then researched further online while figuring out how to apply them to the book itself. In the end, it's fiction of course, but hopefully *believable* fiction!

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