Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Q&A with Jeffrey B. Burton

From my Q&A with Jeffrey B. Burton, author of The Keepers: A Mystery:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

The first book in my series about dog handler Mason "Mace" Reid and his extraordinary pack of human remains detection dogs was titled The Finders. That's what he calls his cadaver dogs. The second in the series is titled The Keepers, which plays off the old nursery rhyme (Finders, Keepers, Losers, Weepers) but, as the novel progresses, the keepers comes to represent the group of villains they're up against.

What's in a name?

Everything. You want a certain cadence...[read on]
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Q&A with Jeffrey B. Burton.

--Marshal Zeringue