Author Bec Woods
Writer of speculative fiction about systems, complicity, and the quiet violence of optimisation.
About Bec
I’ve always needed to know why.Not the official version. Not the approved narrative. The real one — the one underneath, where the decisions actually get made and the people who can’t afford to push back just have to live with them.Two decades of community work will do that to you. Sitting across from people the system was supposed to help and watching it fail them with a smile on its face. Corruption doesn’t always look like villainy. Sometimes it looks like policy. Sometimes it looks like care.I’ve also sat on the other side of that table. Faced a diagnosis, navigated a medical system, and come out the other side. I didn’t survive it. I dealt with it. I did what I had to to be here.Both of those experiences live in my writing.I write dystopian fiction because dystopia isn’t a warning. It’s a mirror. I want you to finish one of my books and look at the world a little differently — at the structures you were told were there to protect you, at the language used to keep you comfortable, at who benefits when you stop asking questions.I want the story to stay in your body long after you’ve closed the cover.I’m a Whitsundays local, a rock music devotee, and someone who has had thousands of stories living in her head for a very long time.It’s time to put them on paper.
Bec’s Books
The system was built to keep people safe.Olivia works inside the systems that keep people safe. Allocation, calibration, alignment. The processes are precise, humane and trusted.No one is left behind. No harm done. Not intentionally.
When subtle irregularities begin to surface, when allocation errors appear and adjustments go unexplained, Olivia does what she has been trained to do.
She observes. She records. She waits for correction.But care has its limits and some outcomes resolve too cleanly. As the boundaries between protection and control begin to blur, Olivia must decide what responsibility means inside a system that insists it is already ethical.What follows is quiet. And far more dangerous.The Quiet Held is Bec’s debut novel and book one in The Quiet Trilogy.
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