On 29 April 2006, crimeflix wrote:
> One obstacle we knew we'd have to overcome was to
make sure the book
> didn't come off like two people wrote it. In our
solo novels, Ken and I
> have very different styles, so we needed to get the
voices to
> merge....so what we decided was I would bend my
writing style toward the
> way Ken writes, and he'd try to write like me...So
some scenes in the
> book may seem "very Bruen" but that doesn't mean Ken
wrote them...
I just finished BUST and enjoyed it very
much--congratulations on it, and I hope it does well. I'm
trying to alternate non-fiction with fiction in my reading,
but I had to violate the rule when BUST arrived. I was due
for non-fiction but I couldn't pass up a Starr/Bruen
combo.
The epigraphs were a kick, and I got some inside jokes like
the "Maureen O'Hara is no Halle Berry" (Halle Berry being, as
I understand it, Bruen's nickname for you because of the
screenplay you wrote for her). And ... wait, don't you
yourself get mentioned in the book? Good Lord, I should have
written it down, because I was reading that bit this
afternoon and I've already forgotten. Who's the writer who
gave the Down Syndrome pin to Clinton? I did a quick search
of the web but didn't find the name. Is it a true story? And
Dillon--is he a character from another Bruen novel?
While I was reading I'd try to guess which was a Bruen
section and which was a Starr section, but I was probably
wrong about a lot of it. It was fun guessing, though, and it
was certainly fun reading.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
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