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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.
Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
