The Story Behind “Talus and the Frozen King”

Online literary magazine Upcoming4Me has just published my short essay The Story Behind Talus and the Frozen King. The essay provides a glimpse into the thought process I went through while planning my latest novel.

Here’s how the story begins:

“A stone-age Sherlock.” It seemed like a good idea at the time. A cute concept for a novel that would riff on the well-established conventions of the detective genre. And an opportunity to exploit the natural mismatch between our modern perceptions of wh...