![]() None of them are set in Wyoming, where Joe Pickett lives. As you know, the stand-alones take place in Colorado, Montana, and North Dakota. They *have* to stand alone from the Joe Pickett series. ![]() Suffice it to say that some ideas and locations I want to write about simply won’t work as Joe Pickett books. Now, though, it’s hard to claim it isn’t a series. I looked at each of those books-followed by Badlands, Paradise Valley, and The Bitterroots-that feature Cassie Dewell as stand-alones with overlapping characters, as if it were a relay race with one character handing the baton to another from book to book. I never intended to write a second series, and I still like to think that I haven’t. As you say, he stepped to the forefront in Back of Beyond, followed by The Highway. ![]() Box: Actually, Cody Hoyt was introduced in a stand-alone thriller called Three Weeks To Say Goodbye in 2009, but he was a fairly minor character. What was your thinking in launching another crime series at that point in 2011?Ĭ.J. ![]() Michael Barson: You were already a successful author with your Joe Pickett series, which was being published by Putnam on an annual basis, when you decided to write Back of Beyond, the first book to feature Cody Holt as your new protagonist. ![]()
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