Marianne de Pierres on heroes

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On SF Signal, Helen Lowe interviews Australian writer Marianne de Pierres. I stumbled across Marianne's work in a collection of her short work, Glitter Rose, and was blown away.

Here's what Marianne says about her heroes:

The heroic aspect of my characters is generally that they are imbued with an intrinsic kindness or generosity of spirit. The anti-hero side is that they are always extremely flawed and make lots of bad decisions. Complexity of character means internal conflicts, doubts, mistakes and missed opportunities – stereotypical heroes don’t harbour those kinds of problems.