At Elfsar meet DONN CORTEZ (Don DeBrandt) on FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 24th
Between 5 and 7pm!
Writer
Donn Cortez, has
taken over Max Allan Collins's CSI:
Miami book series.
Description
Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the
Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious
death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip
Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toilet, his clothing
shredded. There are burn marks on his face and cell phone
fragments scattered around, and his shoes are blown off his
feet. Incredible as it seems, the initial evidence points to
death by lightning strike.
The staff at The Earthly Garden
believe Mulrooney's death is an act of God -- punishment for
straying from the Vitality Method, their spiritual philosophy
that inner beauty can be revealed by nurturing the physical and
spiritual.
The only philosophy Lieutenant
Horatio Caine believes in is justice for the victim -- and he'll
move heaven and earth to get it.
Cortez is currently working on book
four of the CSI Miami saga, which focuses on front man
Horatio Caine and his team of Floridian CSIs. Details of Book
four have yet to be released.
Cortez is the author of the best
selling e-book The Closer, which is also a finalist for
the Daphne DuMaurier award in the category of best
published mainstream mystery/suspense. The Canadian author's
humorous biography claims he is, "addicted to science fiction,
dogs, comic books, Kate, cats, Burning Man, hot tubs, Pop
culture, nude beaches, and putting words down on paper."
Don
DeBrandt is a science fiction writer who also writes
suspense fiction under the name Donn Cortez. Donn Cortez is an
eight hundred pound Mexican and professional Space Pimp.
Don H. DeBrandt writes science fiction, fantasy, horror,
superheroes, cyberpunk, cyberfolk, and cyberanything else.
Spider Robinson has compared DeBrandt's fiction to that of Larry
Niven and John Varley; his first novel,
The Quicksilver
Screen, made Locus magazine's recommended reading
list for 1992.
Embiid Publishing has reprinted
The Quicksilver Screen in electronic form. He's also
published horror fiction in Pulphouse, and a novella in
the SF magazine Horizons. His fiction has earned him Honorable Mentions in both the
Year's Best SF and the
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Three of his short stories appear in a triple volume
gaming anthology, Deadlands, set in the Weird West.
These were Published in August, October and December,
2000.
He has written two stage plays for high schools,
Heart
of Glass and Happy Hour at
the Secret Hideout,
and has worked as a freelancer for Marvel Comics on such titles
as Spiderman 2099 and
2099 Unlimited. His other
comics work include several stories for the anthology comic
Freeflight.
"In the
books that I'm working on right now-as Cortez-my style
is a little quirkier, sort of a dry, ironic sense of
wit."
It
isn't the first time Cortez has adapted a successful TV
series into print. As Don DeBrandt, he wrote Shakedown,
a tie-in for Joss Whedon's
Angel series. Now he's taking over the writing of the
CSI: Miami tie-ins from none other than famed crime
writer Max Allan Collins.
"The way
that I look at the CSI franchise is similar to that of
comic book writer Warren Ellis.
He said that CSI is, essentially, just like the movie
Blade Runner-that the
technology and the approach to crime solving is just
like that used by Harrison Ford's
character when he's hunting the replicants.
"That's
the kind of feel I'm trying to bring to the [CSI] books.
I'm trying to make them flashy, glittery-but all of the
flash and glitter of the technology is very much 21st
century so it has more of a science fiction edge to it."
DeBrandt lives in Vancouver BC, and is notorious in certain
circles of Northwest Fandom (but not for his writing). His
hobbies include leather-tasting, naked laughing gas hot tubbing,
and being thrown off roofs by irate hotel security. He does not
plan to run for office, ever. There are too many pictures.
Make sure to
visit Elfsar on Friday, February 24th to meet this talented and
witty writer, as we are proud to have him as our special guest
between: 5 and 7pm.
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