I think it was the TV police/detective
dramas that I grew up with that channeled me into Crime Fiction writing…I’m not
sure. It was never a goal of mine to write either about murder and drug dealing
and criminal gangs and computer fraud or the men and women who fight these
crimes.
Yet…that what I ended up writing…an entire
7 or 8 book series on such characters and incidents. Oh, well…it’s an exciting
genre with which to work. The play of good against evil is never so stark as in a
good, old-fashioned, blood-letting murder…in a metal shed, in the middle of the
Alberta prairie on an cold, dark October night…
Where do I come up with these things? Hmmm…well,
I actually don’t. You see these…characters…channel their stories to me. I just
type, and edit, proof, scrap, rearrange, and research, and query and submit,
and re-do…
Yeah.
Crime writing.
They say to write what you
know but not many bikers, murders, 13-year old girls and cops write so I
figured it was my duty to fill in for them. To let people know what it is like
out there…or might be like. What it’s like in my imagination, anyways. Hopefully
it is sort of close to what it’s really like--good and evil and mixtures of both.
Convoluted motives based on secret
and traumatic pasts. Unknown futures. Broken promises in the name of the law.
Lies to protect the innocent and uncover the guilty. Aching hearts, lost souls,
and hidden emotions--or no emotions. Greed.
Check out the THE TRAZ
“Cold, heavy metal in her hand...she’d shot
someone. Who?”
“The action and dialogue are visceral,
relentless...blistering…”
2 comments:
Downloaded and can't wait to read, sounds like a great premise!
Wagging Tales
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