So I'm having shock responses to social media. I can't be on Twitter for more than 20 minutes before all the terrible news gives me an anxiety attack.

This is bad for promoting my book due out at the end of July.

So since my birthday is this week, I'm asking y'all for help.
Automatic Reload's a good book, about posthuman combat and mentally ill people in love and prosthetic armaments, but I feel foolish discussing it because, well, the world is burning.

So I'm gonna talk about it a bit, and if you feel like spreading the word, that would be nice.
Automatic Reload is about the trauma of technology:
Automatic Reload is about competence porn:
Automatic Reload is about love between two mentally ill people.
Automatic Reload has a starred review from Publishers' Weekly, saying "In tackling Silvia’s panic disorder and Mat’s PTSD, as well as their respective feelings of dysphoria, Steinmetz imbues this rip-roaring tale with sensitivity and heart." https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-16821-4
Automatic Reload has a great review from Reading Reality:

https://www.readingreality.net/2020/06/review-automatic-reload-by-ferrett-steinmetz/
Automatic Reload has a preorder bonus where you got me to write a new 'Mancer story starring Paul, Valentine, and Aliyah. You miss Flex? This is the only way to get more of Valentine's videogame magic.

https://www.theferrett.com/2020/03/30/a-new-story-in-the-flex-universe-aliyahs-sixteenth-birthday-where-to-find-it-how-to-get-it/
And lastly, Automatic Reload is your chance to ask me on whatever podcast/blog/video thing you want me to be on. At this point, I'll happily guest on any show; if you've been thinking you need a Ferrett, well, here I am. Just email me at theferrett@theferrett.com.
And if you've read part of this thread, or even shared it: thanks. Hope you're doing well. Stay safe.
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