With Black, my latest, I'm actually stepping into a genre I've loved my whole life, but for some reason never wrote in: Hard-boiled detective fiction. I have 22 novels at last count, and probably fifteen are in those genres, with a couple of non-fiction novels thrown in to keep life interesting, and several police procedurals when that mood strikes me. What prompted you to write it? RB: Well, most of my oeuvre is in the suspense thriller and action/adventure area. OMN: Black is your first work of "detective fiction". Once I've fleshed the characters out enough so that they're real to me, then I plot. The more intriguing and interesting the character, the more quirky and unusual, the more promising as the protag to carry a series. Russell Blake: I generally come up with the character, and just know whether he or she will support a series - mainly because of the depth of my appreciation of that figure's, well, character. Omnimystery News: How do you decide if a book will be a stand-alone or one of a series? The author of over twenty suspense, thriller and action/adventure books, Russell's first detective novel is Black (Reprobation Ltd., September 2013 ebook formats) and we recently had the opportunity to talk to him about his venture in this genre. We are delighted to welcome suspense writer Russell Blake to Omnimystery News today.
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