![]() ![]() It was my series going out under my own name, so I could write a little bit older than I previously had done. When I started doing ‘The Beat’, I got the freedom to write something more personal. My first three young adult books were very much aimed at the younger end of the young adult market, 12 to 14 years of age. They may have a different feel because ‘The Beat’ novels, unlike ‘Bone and Cane’ were written for teenagers, and you do need to get straight to the point when you’re writing for that audience. ‘The Beat’ novels, a series written twenty years ago, are about young police officers going through their probation period, whereas your more recent ‘Bone and Cane’ series features a politician and convicted criminal and has a very different feel in term of writing style. I wondered what influence they had on his current ‘Bone and Cane’ series and what it was like for an author to write a contemporary crime novel in the 1990s (The Beat) and write a crime novel now, but set in the 1990s (Bone and Cane). David Belbin has recently made some of his ‘The Beat’ series, written in the 1990s, available as e-books. These earlier works may provide an interesting comparison to an author’s current novels, as well as introducing new readers to their work. The revolution in e-books means that authors are able to make previously out-of-print books easily available, at an affordable price. ![]()
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