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Abigail Roux:
Abi, I love action in your books, all these guns, hand-to-hand fighting and cold steel. I would like to ask you: where does your interest in weaponry and martial arts come from?
Abigail Roux
My interest and knowledge of weaponry comes mostly from my father. He taught me how to love history and everything about it, and anyone who knows history knows that weaponry isn't too far behind!
I've always been a huge fan of competence. It's not so much about a gun or a knife or knowing how to throw a punch, it's far more complex than that. It's about being competent. It's about the type of people who can, with anything within reach, defend themselves in any situation, who can think themselves out of trouble just as easily as they can fight their way through it.
Other than just loving the grace and simplicity of that type of competence, I just really like things that go boom.
I've always been a huge fan of competence. It's not so much about a gun or a knife or knowing how to throw a punch, it's far more complex than that. It's about being competent. It's about the type of people who can, with anything within reach, defend themselves in any situation, who can think themselves out of trouble just as easily as they can fight their way through it.
Other than just loving the grace and simplicity of that type of competence, I just really like things that go boom.
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