Byline Supplement - Confessions of a ‘Fox Blonde’

Fire in the hole!

I dropped a personal bombshell today, Confessions of a ‘Fox Blonde’, in Byline Supplement. I know I ask a lot, but please take a moment to read it, and please, if you can afford to and haven’t already, support the magazine with a paid subscription - it’s the new weekend magazine of Byline Times.

There is no other reader-funded publication doing the kind of work our team does - long-form, in-depth, unapologetic exposés of the corruption of our times, but also with an artful heart.

I would never have had the courage to write Confessions if it were not for the nurturing team of Byline Supplement, which is also where I do in-depth investigations of Putin, Musk, Trump, and all the other oligarchs.

Thank you as always for your support of my work. This has been a liberating week for me.

As Margaret Atwood says, “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” It’s important we write our own.

As I noted in Confessions:

It would take me time to recover from broadcast news, and although rare, I still get periodic Fox tremors - nightmares where I'm back in the newsroom, nightmares that always end in gore-fests.

The last one I had, I was in the building, and I had a headset on and could hear what everyone was saying. I knew I had to get out of the building. It was unsafe. So I walked outside into the street, and then I looked up, and saw a news van flying into the building. I realized it was an act of terror, and I ran back in and grabbed my investigative mentor and pulled him out of the rubble to safety.

I woke up shaken. Little did I know that ten years from that moment, I would be fighting a much bigger battle, and able to do so, because of my experience and training.

Thanks for reading. I look forward to seeing paid members at today’s Bette Dangerous ‘Speakeasy’ zoom.

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Paid members will find the link to Sunday’s Bette Dangerous ‘Speakeasy’ below. It’s not too late to become a paid member to unlock the archives and join our Zoom meetings. Thank you as well to all those who support my work with coffee tips and who buy my books! In a review of my latest, the erotic novella Fox Undercover, I’ve been called “The punk rock Anaïs Nin.”