Criminal Element, a mystery/thriller/crime site run by Macmillan, has just posted the first of what I hope will be several articles written by…me. Continuum: Future Cop on Today’s Beat Continuum, SyFy’s latest series (U.S. debut on January 14), drops a cop and some villains from the future into 2012 and…
I’ve been interviewed! It’s on Murder Lab, a developing workshop/connection hub for writers and readers of thrillers. In it, I talk about where Doha 12 came from and who I’d cast in the lead roles for the HBO miniseries. The driving force behind Murder Lab is Kristen Elise, a PhD…
Writing any story not set in the world of today, a couple years back, or a couple years forward is an exercise in period fiction. “Period” doesn’t have to mean hoop skirts, horse-drawn carriages and swords. Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs, set during the mid-1990s tech bubble, is a period piece. So…