Ruth Newton

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128 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · The First Guest on Books With Hooks is Publishing! & The Protagonist as an Outsider · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

that is green to what is happening so that we could learn about the world and hopefully then put ourselves in Viv's shoes of like, well, how would I have done that job if I hadn't have known the truth of what's happening to these women who are working as carriers?

And I think it also, it allows that growth of staying with her over time to go through the realizations with her and hopefully change our mind along the way as she did as well.

Yeah, I think I originally said like speculative fiction or like grounded dystopia.

I tried to avoid the word sci-fi, even though I was shortlisted for that sci-fi prize.

But I didn't feel like that was the right packaging for it.

So I used words like speculative and dystopian.

And as I said earlier, I didn't say the word thriller because that just hadn't come into my mind.

But now it's sort of it's being marketed as like a feminist thriller with a speculative edge.

But that's that's sort of not the main driver for people.

And I'm glad it sort of lost its sci-fi branding just because as much as I love sci-fi, I think that sci-fi readers could have been potentially a bit disappointed that it's not sci-fi enough.

And yeah, so I think it's sitting in the right place now.

Yeah, I did do a fair bit of research, especially into like the gut microbiome.

And I spoke to a gut microbiome specialist who was really interested in the emotional impact of our gut microbiome.

And she was great.

And she said, this is a really good question.

concept because it's not that far away from what is possible.

And even at the moment, she said people are experimenting with putting their gut microbiome into other people to see if it can help depression and things like that.

So the idea that we can alter our interior world through the microbiome, I think there's enough truth in there that the science felt believable.

And then I just did a lot of research around like medical terminology and how like big pharma sort of presents their services.

But there is also an element of just magical thinking and making things up.

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