The Craft: January 2008
Award-winning medical suspense author CJ Lyons is a physician trained in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She has assisted police and prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen by Proxy and has worked in numerous trauma centers, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight. Publisher's Weekly proclaimed her debut medical suspense novel, LIFELINES. (Berkley, March 2008), "a spot-on debut….a breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller." Contact her at http://www.cjlyons.net.
I know people often associate world building with science fiction or fantasy, but it's just as important in thrillers. In order to draw the reader into your story you need to create a universe where you both control the rules and where you make a promise to the reader to also follow those rules.
Award-winning medical suspense author CJ Lyons is a physician trained in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She has assisted police and prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen by Proxy and has worked in numerous trauma centers, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight. Publisher's Weekly proclaimed her debut medical suspense novel, LIFELINES. (Berkley, March 2008), "a spot-on debut….a breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller." Contact her at http://www.cjlyons.net.
I know people often associate world building with science fiction or fantasy, but it's just as important in thrillers. In order to draw the reader into your story you need to create a universe where you both control the rules and where you make a promise to the reader to also follow those rules.
