News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #81…

Item: Harry Bosch from a parallel universe? As Michael Connelly observed, the new Amazon series has made a “fair amount of changes” to his famous LAPD detective. Why would we expect otherwise? Hollywood always has to tinker when turning a book into a movie! In this case, we’re talking two books, Bosch #3, The Concrete Blonde, and Bosch #8, City of Bones, for the premier of the TV series on Amazon Prime. Bosch in the books is an ex-Vietnam tunnel rat; TV makes him re-enlist after 9/11 to becom...