– Well, they probably loved it. They’ll blog about it later. – Yeah, Chuck Palahniuk hit me in the face with a rubber snake!
– You said writing your first thriller was scary. Was it scary like… to write the book, because you had to get into that thriller mode? Was it like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, all work and no play makes Diana a dull girl?
– It was really hard. I have profound respect for mystery and thriller writers now. I had no idea how much goes into the craft.
Partly I did it because, I always tell my writing students, if you want to learn how to write a great plot, you should write a mystery because it distills plot down to its essence. And it was HARD, trying to implant clues, and foreshadowing but not give it away…? And somehow solve it all at the end in a way that’s not hokey or obvious?
Very challenging. And on top of that, there was all the research. I had to interview all these fingerprint detectives, we went to the crime lab in Syracuse.
It’s completely high tech and very sterile. Which is interesting to me because I often have a magical element in my writing. I was trying to see if there was a space in contemporary, high tech society, for magic.
– Could you relate to this character, or is she someone you had a hard time getting into? – Well, they probably loved it.
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