Kathy Reichs Interview

World renowned author, forensic anthropologist and the inspiration for television series 'Bones', Kathy Reichs chats to Linda McGee about falling in love with writing and her passion for science.

Linda McGee: When you first decided to put pen to paper what inspired you? Did you have an idea for an interesting character or did it just strike that the work you did as a forensic anthropologist might make for interesting stories?

KR: Yeah. The bottom line is a good story. I wanted to write a good story. But I am fanatic about getting the science accurate, even if it's not my science, if I'm using forensic ballistics analysis or blood spatter pattern or whatever, I do sit down with one of our expects at the lab and go through it so that I make sure I have it right. But you still have to, in writing fiction... people don't want to read a textbook, they want to learn something but you have to keep it very brief, you have to keep it jargon-free and entertaining, which is not a pre-requisite for writing textbooks.

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