Braidee Otto

So I was like, I wasn't, I didn't have Instagram.

I didn't have TikTok.

I wasn't on any of the social media platforms that people like authors are so often using to promote their work.

So I wasn't seeing how much that marketing was

was used, like how, like, you know, the trope graphics and all of those things.

I didn't realise how big a part of the process that was.

So I think it was like...

of course, this book was originally self-published.

So when I started kind of thinking like, oh, I need to start promoting this and I logged on and I was like, oh, trope graphics and all of these reels and TikToks that about like morally gray people and like trials.

And I was like, oh, okay, I need to actually go through and read my book and see what I've got in here.

And we've ended up with like a

second chance romance forbidden love kind of mashup going on, which probably isn't a very popular trope at this time.

I think it's very much the enemies to lovers is what's what's hot at the moment.

And I was like, well, I can't just go and

change that for the sake of what's popular.

So I pretty much just pulled out what was already in there and went with that.

In spades.

There is a bit of yearning and angst and things that I'm really big on like being that it is

a book about spies.

There is a lot of secrets and a lot of people not telling the truth about things and I am very cautious myself of spoilers.