I guess if there’s one book of mine that disappeared without a ripple, it has to be Dying is Easy, a 2020 graphic crime novel that I did with artist Martin Simmonds. High on watching my way through the entirety of Foyle’s War, I wanted to write a fair play mystery of my own, and thought I had a couple good twists and misdirections. But because it was a comic book, I knew it had to have kinetics, that it had to have some big action set pieces as well, so I also crafted it to feel like a bombastic 80s action movie, something starring Bruce Willis or Mickey Rourke. It turned out the world wasn’t exactly waiting for me to write a comic in the spirit of Beverly Hills Cop with the underlying architecture of an episode of Murder, She Wrote. I know, I know, hard to believe, amirite?
Someone liked it, though. The book came and went, but people still blunder into it now and then, and it always pleases me when they walk away happy they did. Trust me, the only thing a writer loves more than a good review, is a good review for a book two years after it came out. Hey, we only need about 30,000 more passionate fans, and it’ll be time to write the sequel!