“I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things.”— Philip Marlowe   The image of a noir detective is ingrained through some of the most iconic movies and actors of all time, from Bogart as Sam Spade to Mitchum as Philip Marlowe, hard-boiled detectives fighting off gangsters and femme fatales, all for […]

How Two Writers Can Produce a Novel Together—Lincoln Child on working with Douglas Preston Our collaborative process has changed significantly in the twenty-five—alas, yes, twenty-five—years since we started writing novels together. Initially, Doug (who at the time had more experience writing professionally, albeit nonfiction) wrote the first drafts of the majority of the chapters. I […]