Saturday, January 10, 2026

Q&A with Bruce Robert Coffin

From my Q&A with Bruce Robert Coffin, author of Bitter Fall (Detective Justice, 2):
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

I would say it does quite a bit. Bitter Fall captures both the mood and the season in which the story takes place. While I’ve had a vague idea for the titles on each of the Detective Justice novels, I wasn’t entirely happy with what I had come up with. My publishing team has been very involved in both title suggestions and cover art concepts and I must say I’m very happy with the results.

What's in a name?

Much like book titles, I think the names of characters play a vital role in how the readers see them and even...[read on]
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Q&A with Bruce Robert Coffin.

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