Forgive me if this has been asked before, but how did you get involved with writing Da Vinci's Demons?

wholly through david goyer, who created the show. tv staffs have to hire freelance writers twice per every 13 episodes – or at least DvD did – and david more than most gets the frustrating paradox of needing work to get experience but needing experience to get work. being a comic guy as both a writer and a reader he knew my stuff (hickman’s, too – he did an ep. a few down the road from me) and thought he saw someone that could write for TV. he literally cold-called out of the blue and asked,...