I’m not sure how many writers are doing Cybercrime novels these days. Most of what’s out there that deals with technology tend to be Thrillers more than traditional Mysteries. So I guess I’m pioneering something new here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I came up with the idea for Null Pointer<\/em>, I was trying to appeal to a manager who loved mysteries and also worked in IT. But the more I thought about it, being a programmer is not that different than being a detective, which is why I made the detective more of a Watson and the amateur sleuth a programmer. In this way, I could explore technical stories and have the details explained to the cop by a functional expert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Having my detective be an average person regarding technology makes him more relatable to the average non-technical reader. The expertise of a programmer makes him relatable to those workers who also code and or work in IT. Admittedly, it’s a gamble for the genre. I mean, how many middle-aged women would find this stuff attractive? Not many, which is why I’ve always written these stories for IT professionals, not traditional Mystery readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think that’s how you find your nitch in this business. I don’t believe many programmers read mystery novels. I’d wager that’s a very, very finite number. But everyone in IT who’s read Null Pointer<\/em> winds up loving it. So maybe it’s just a matter of finding my audience over time. I mean, how many medical professionals read medical procedures? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe what I’m writing is more like a cyber procedural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not sure how many writers are doing Cybercrime novels these days. Most of what’s out there that deals with technology tend to be Thrillers more than traditional Mysteries. So …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}