Stacy Harder
Stacey Harder (Fischer) is an Australian thriller novelist & vocalist. As a young girl she developed an anxiety disorder and through her writing and singing she found that the anxiety was an ocean of creativity and was determined to ensure that her hardships would become her strengths. Second Reality is her debut novel, which tells the story of Hope who is struggling with life. Traumatized by her existence, she could not know that through this long, lonely time, someone would eventually come to save her. This book explores triggering topics such as sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, physical violence, self harm and suicide.
My mother was a very unwell woman. Her life began in trauma, and one evil person after another just seemed to find her along the way. Alcoholism, depression, PTSD, anxiety, drugs, disease… she was tortured from the inside as well as out.
So, I grew up in a broken home. I witnessed a lot of big and scary things for a child. You know some people cope with trauma by hurting others and numbing themselves with one substance or another. I am no better or worse than those people, I just made a different choice.
I wrote a book.
Second Reality is where I put all my fear and longing. I created characters who could be there for me when I didn’t know who to turn to. They were there for each other, and I always say, they can be there for you too.
