Nearly all of us work in some business and the better part
of our waking hours is often spent engaged in that work, so placing my novels
in an industry has always felt to me to be a natural extension of life. The industry in STAR TIME (coming out this
Wednesday) is network television. In my
legal thriller A QUESTION OF PROOF, the victim is a newspaper publisher. BIRTHRIGHT (being published soon) is the
saga of an investment banking family.
The amount of research that I had to master to be able to write knowledgeably
about those industries was often daunting.
If one is not a scientist and, more specifically, a scientist in the
specific discipline in which a novel is to be set, the research can be even
more daunting. Exposure to the science can be fascinating to readers, but that will prove
inconsequential to creating a compelling novel if the characters and their
concerns do not fascinate as well.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Writing the Science-based Thriller
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