Ian Loome
I ghostwrite for others and have several novels I'm working on other than those in my series, so I tend to be working on more than one book at one time.
In terms of Quinn, "Snitches Get Stitches" started as dive into Pennsylvania politics but it kept morphing based on character sketches into the murder of a transgender aide to a state senator. In terms of plotting the murder, I tend to plan backwards from the resolution; it allows for a greater complexity that is easier to hide, as all mysteries and twists are generally based in a deceptive premise.
The next Joe Brennan novel, "Master of the Reich," is partly based in true events: a long-standing effort by the same people who funded the Third Reich and other 20th Century Fascist governments to use the divisions hard data can identify to foment dissent. That hasn't really ended, although the means to an end in the book are largely fictional.
In terms of Quinn, "Snitches Get Stitches" started as dive into Pennsylvania politics but it kept morphing based on character sketches into the murder of a transgender aide to a state senator. In terms of plotting the murder, I tend to plan backwards from the resolution; it allows for a greater complexity that is easier to hide, as all mysteries and twists are generally based in a deceptive premise.
The next Joe Brennan novel, "Master of the Reich," is partly based in true events: a long-standing effort by the same people who funded the Third Reich and other 20th Century Fascist governments to use the divisions hard data can identify to foment dissent. That hasn't really ended, although the means to an end in the book are largely fictional.
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