ZOMBIE COP hits the big time

My original graphic novel Zombie Cop will make its small-screen debut on October 15, in the teaser segment of hit CBS-TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

 It started on Wednesday, with an email from the publisher, forwarding an email from the show's property master, seeking permission to use the book on an upcoming episode.  I responded positively (of course!).  By the end of business that day I'd had a conversation with the property master, signed the necessary paperwork, and the publisher had shipped copies of the book over to the production office.  They shot the scene last night.  In the scene, someone's reading the graphic novel in a diner, and that serves as the lead-in to a gunfight.

 Now, I have various connections to CSI.  I used to edit a line of CSI comics.  I've met Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the hit franchise, been a guest on the set of CSI: Miami, and written graphic novels based on CSI and CSI: Miami.  I wrote a CSI: Miami novel called Right to Die that came out last year.  This coming Tuesday, August 25, my first CSI novel (based on the original series), CSI: Brass in Pocket, goes on sale, and I'm just wrapping up the final polish on the next one, CSI: Blood Quantum.  I know people who work on the show, and people in CBS licensing in New York.

 But the property master who selected the book was unaware of all that until we talked on the phone.  He just liked the cover and title and thought it was an appropriate way to lead up to the gunfight.

So the six-degrees thing here is more like two degrees, or one--but those connections had nothing to do with my book making its small-screen debut.  It's more like a cosmic coincidence... but I'll take it!

Herewith the covers of Zombie Cop, and CSI: Brass in Pocket, so you know what to look for...

Comments

[Carl Dershem]

Woo-hoo! That's just one of those cool little things that only a very few get to say. I'll tell everyone I know to watch CSI that night, if you keep us up to date on which night it will be.

[Jeff Mariotte]

It'll be October 15th, and I will definitely post reminders as we get closer.