How does a forensic pathologist/food and travel writer foray into the thriller market?
That’s funny most people ask me how a forensic pathologist ended up writing about food! The answer to that would be that an editor from a trendy NYC magazine named Paper noticed my writing on a bulletin board and invited me to write for them. From there I was quickly picked up by Food & Wine magazine, then by Martha Stewart Living, then the New York Times, GQ, New York Magazine, etc. When I used to see Martha out at parties, I’d never introduce myself for fear she’d be horrified to learn what I did for a day job, and fire me because I didn’t fit in, but later she knew what I did, and was always really good to me. I love writing about food, particularly when I get to travel to write about food, but after pounding out, say, 500 words on edible flowers for the third time, the heart and the pen yearn to be free. I loved the idea of not having to write in a particular voice specific to a magazine, and being able to talk about forensics and murder, and to use swear words liberally. Very, ver
