I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.