Acquired Empathy

Rynn Worley is a beautiful, blue-eyed, blond haired, quick-witted, smart-mouthed journalist at one of the most popular news stations in America. Though journalist might be pushing it a little, she does anchor both the morning news and her own primetime show in the evening. She ascended the ladder at breakneck speed thanks to her brashness, becoming immensely popular thanks to her polarization. From graduating college in 1996 to becoming a household name and the highest paid woman in news by the year 2000, Rynn is a walking, skillfully talking masterclass on cornering your market and making them malleable to your whims. To her fans, she can make the night look like day. For her team, she will fight the bloodiest. In between dismantling Democrats by day and weaving narratives by night, she wields influence perhaps better than anybody else in the game. And in the spring-tinted air of the new millennium, Rynn Worley is at the very top of her game.

Seventeen springs later, what once was a self-righteous perspective is now the polar opposite. Then again, it’s hard to be self-righteous when the chickens come home.

If you'd only known.   

Hindsight is 20/20, though. Right, Rynn?

Acquired Empathy is a novel based in themes of willful apathy, self-benefiting benevolence, and what it really means to relate. It is contemporary fiction steeped in social commentary, with a splash of new age and a dash of satire.