“Write what you know.”

That’s the advice any fiction-writing instructor gives their students. It’s the same advice comic-book editors give out to eager scribes trying to break into the business.

“Write what you know.”

I spent a year as a police reporter covering the city of Evanston and Northwestern University for the Daily Northwestern.

I covered my share of cops and robbers for the Miami Herald during my stints there, and, then I spent more than three years as a police reporter for the Daily Herald and another fifteen or so writing about criminals of all shapes and sizes.

I’ve never met billionaires who dress up in capes and cowls and fight crime, or the last sons of dying planets sent to Earth by their brilliant-but-doomed parents. But cops? Yeah, I know cops. And I know how dedicated they are and the lengths to which they go to right wrongs and make the Bad Guys pay.

Order a copy of OCP#3. Let me know what you think.