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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At this point youre a novelist, a screenwriter and a television writer.
Which was originally intended to be your career?
Suddenly I was a screenwriterandI had a television career for a short time.
For about five or six years I did both television and screenplays.
Do you have a preference of the three?
I love movies more than television I hate to admit it.
I like stories that begin and end.
So youre trying to find the authors voice and the dramatic interpretation of his voice and theres an ending.
Its like a 10-hour movie.
I remember when I was a baby writer I was doing episodic TV which began and ended every episode.
Fortunately by then I was doing features and then I kind of circled back to novel writing.
But, collaboration is the great thing about movie making.
Has writing for screen affected how you write fiction and vice versa?
I think that screenwriting had two effects on me.
It also made me a very concise and accurate writer and I could experiment with structure and form.
A movie is still like a filmstrip; it starts with frame one and it ends at the end.
B) Im going to take what I learned in movies and bring it back to literature.
Catalina Eddyis definitely very visually written you put the reader firmly into each scene as the story unfolds.
Was that the intention?
The idea was that were seeing this little glimpse as it rolls by.
Did the characters or the crimes come to you first for each of the three stories?
The characters came to me first, sort of situational-y.
I was interested in bridge between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald in the detective world.
And I was really interested in San Diego as a landscape.
InPortuguese Bend,I have the police forensics photographer and the detective.
I was really interested in exploring what happens when somebody who is really active gets paralyzed.
Whats their job going to look like now?
How does a woman detective go from being physical to cerebral?
Catalina Eddyis out now and season 3 ofBoschpremiers April 21 on Amazon.
