But this time, I wanted to write about the women who report on superheroes, the love interests who don’t actually get to punch robots. But then Ana and Thea asked me if I could write a novella set in the universe and… well.
Then the Book Smugglers slipped under my defences, with their Year of the Superhero short story theme and it turned out I had one more superhero story in me: Kid Dark Against the Machine, a love letter to teen sidekicks. But I didn’t want to write a novel about superheroes. Then I started to get comments about how much people wanted it to be a novel, which… okay, it’s lovely, I’m not going to whinge about that feedback. It said a lot of things that were important to me, particularly about the role of women in super teams. When I wrote “Cookie Cutter Superhero” for the diverse YA anthology Kaleidoscope, I felt like that was my superhero story. My kids and borrowed kids have grown up in a world of superhero media and my longtime love of the genre has grown a lot over the last decade because of that. I talk about superheroes a lot, in my everyday life. (And possibly a new girlfriend, too.) I still have a lot to say about superheroes. This time, Tina Valentina may have ventured too far.Īlongside Australia’s greatest superheroes–including the powerful Astra, dazzling Solar, and The Dark in his full brooding glory–Friday will go to another dimension in the hopes of finding her mother, saving the day, maybe even getting the story of a lifetime out of the adventure. While Fry may not be super-powered herself, she understands the power of legacy: her mother is none other than the infamous reporter Tina Valentina, renowned worldwide for her legendary interviews with the True Blue Aussie Beaut Superheroes and her tendency to go to extraordinary lengths to get her story.
Every lottery cycle, a new superhero is created and quite literally steps into the shoes of the hero before them–displacing the previous hero. In a world of superheroes, supervillains, and a machine that can create them all, millennial vlogger and girl reporter Friday Valentina has no shortage of material to cover. From the award-winning author of Cookie Cutter Superhero and Kid Dark Against the Machine comes a brand new novella about girl reporters, superheroes, and interdimensional travel
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