Oct. 11th, 2024

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1. If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live and why?

Of the places I've been... I'm gonna go with Venice. It's just such a beautiful, interesting place. I'd say NYC, but like. That's realistic. I have lived in NYC and can definitely potentially do so again in my life, whereas Venice or Tokyo or London or wherever are all more pie-in-the-sky.

2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?

Chinese. Fuck knows I'm working hard enough to learn it.

3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?

I took the Staten Island Ferry last summer, for funsies because it's a pretty ride and I thought my kids would like it.

4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?

My flight from HK to NYC, with a layover for refueling in Vancouver. That was like. well over 12 hours.

5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?

Mitch.
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Secret Gates have protected mankind from the unknown chaos beyond the edges of reality for millennia, and now, all that stands between everything humanity knows and the horrors outside it are a depressed trans man, his exhausted partner, and a creature ill-suited to the world after being pulled from his own horrific reality. This is Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, an urban fantasy where only fragile Gates protect all we know from eldritch, incomprehensible magic. This is the world that Adrian Somer is determined to save.

In this dark but hopeful urban fantasy novella, masterful storyteller Nicola Kapron introduces us to a world that, on the surface, appears similar to our own, but underneath has complex magic, secret rituals, hidden organizations, and the constant shadow of danger from the mysteries that dwell beyond the six closed Gates. What lies outside the portals locked to protect humanity? Join Adrian Somer, Kade Mauzy, and the other characters in Scrap Metal Angel to find out…

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Genre: Fantasy with Technology
Rating: Mature
Trigger Warnings: body horror (graphic descriptions), death of a parent (past), death of a sibling (past), death of a spouse (past), gore (graphic descriptions), misgendering, minor character death, violence (graphic descriptions)
Relationships: friends, siblings, twins
Character Features: bipoc, magic use, murderer, non-human character, secret identity, sentient construct, tattoos, trans man
Other Tags: angst, be gay solve crimes, dimension jumping, magical mishaps, murder, past tense, resurrection, second chances, third person limited (multiple) point of view
Length: 146 pages/42,878 words

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