INTERVIEWS Ridley has been interviewed around the web and in newspapers across the country. Here are some articles and interviews for your reading pleasure (most recent at top)... Listen to a BBC radio interview with Ridley and Dave (click the yellow link once you're on the BBC page). Watch a slideshow showing the a Rockbottom Remainders show in LA. "In their book, Barry and Pearson, both fathers of daughters, decided they wanted to create a strong female character, to counter the cloying Wendy..." Read the full article in the Contra Costa Times. "...they claim they worked well together – once Pearson got used to getting his work back from Miami with half of it gone. "I had to take out the scenes he wrote where Peter has sex with the dolphin," Barry broke in. "He tried to sneak them back. Using tiny little fonts." Read the full (very funny) article in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Pearson, never at a loss for a plot twist, said of Barry, "He believes in simplifying things and I sort of overcomplicate things. What was interesting for me was to write something and have it come back from an editor-friend and be even better."" Read the full interview: SeattlePI.com A big, wonderful article about Peter and the Starcatchers appeared in USA Today. "Barry says it was Pearson, supposedly the more serious writer, who wrote the scene where the pirates resort to using a gigantic black bra for a sail. "I know I will be accused," Barry says, "since ladies' underwear is involved."" Read the full interview: USAToday.com Ridley and Dave Barry were interviewed in the Miami Herald about writing Peter and the Starcatchers. "I bought eye patches for the book tour," Barry said. And another one: Ridley and Dave Barry were interviewed in BookPage about their experience writing Peter and the Starcatchers together! "The worst part of working [with Ridley] is that he's a madman for work. He wants to write the entire book in ONE SITTING." (pdf format) "In THE BODY OF DAVID HAYES there is a confrontation between Daphne and Liz Boldt that sets things on a new course. I'm eager to see where that leads..." Read the full interview: BookReporter.com "As the Martha Stewart, Enron and Tyco financial scandals and trials dominate media coverage, Pearson steps up to the plate with a new tale of white-collar crime tied to the embezzlement of millions of dollars from a bank where Det. Lou Boldt's wife is a rising star..." Read the full article: ThisWeekNews.com [Re: the Washington D.C. sniper attacks] "I was there in Washington, D.C., for the National Book Festival... We got caught in one of the logjams from when they locked down the Interstates in their dragnets trying to catch these guys. We were in an absolute standstill. My wife was in the seat next to me and said, "Can't you do something about this?" It was meant completely tongue-in-cheek, but I had probably an hour to just sit there in traffic – which in my life I never get – and I just put my mind to it. I said, "What would Boldt do if this was happening? What would Boldt do – how's he going to stop this guy?" A piece of technology occurred to me that maybe they had not used..." Read the full article: ModestyArbor.com "[My] favorite avocation is to spend an evening around our dining table with two or three other couples. This, I feel, is where many of the world's ills are solved, and many souls restored. Mine, especially." Read the full article: Barnes & Noble.com: Meet the Writers "...I think fiction is more about bending the truth than perpetrating a lie..." Read the full article: BookPage.com "I had an incredible experience of meeting the REAL Lou Boldt a number of years ago. I was set to interview a veteran homicide cop and he opened the door and...I couldn't believe it...there was LOU BOLDT standing right in front of me." Read the full article: CNN.com: Book Chat "Authors who create series characters face a challenge other writers don't – they have to find ways to let their characters grow and evolve from one book to the next..." Listen to the full interview: Eye on Books Audio Interview "Pearson says each of his books has a big overriding concept. "Art of Deception is about fear. Middle of Nowhere is about trust. Parallel Lies is about truth," he says. "I'm not writing great literature here, but it has to have literary potential or you're not going to like it..." Read the full article: At Home in the Heartland "...I don't want to preach. There's too much of that out there. But there is more of that in these books, I think, than you probably see. That's good, because I don't want you to see it. If it happens to go across your vision like a spark, that's great; but I don't want to hold it in front of you like a burning match." Read the full article: MysteryGuide.com "One guy I interviewed drove up in this robin's-egg-blue van, all rusted out. I mean, we've all passed these things on the highway a million times, limping along. He opens up the back and it's illegal to transport any kind of explosives – and it's packed with solid-core rocket fuel in PVC pipes..." Read the full article: The World According to Ridley Pearson "I want people to absorb knowledge as they read my books..." Read the full article: Success has writer Pearson climbing trees And last but not least... Help out on the Crime Lab Project... Read more about it here!