When I first started writing this series, Victor Bayne was about my age...and now I’m catching up with Jacob and not-quite-forty Vic has been looking more and more like a young whippersnapper! Among the Living was written in answer to a call for entry for a novella-length story featuring paranormal beings in everyday situations. I hadn’t really thought about writing a series back when I got the idea for PsyCop. It just seemed like it would be an interesting premise to have psychic cops going around doing their jobs, but then also dealing with the personal ramifications of being psychic, because certainly, the knife needs to cut both ways. It’s no fun giving a character a supernormal power without also saddling them with a liability that’s just as prominent. The worldbuilding and characterization were the two things that made me eager to keep expanding the PsyCop world once this initial story was written. It seemed like there were so many more profoundly awkward situations with Vic’s name written all over them just waiting to be explored. I don’t think PsyCop should go on forever, since series that do that, in my opinion, tend to overreach the protagonists’ character arcs and jump the shark.
What do You think about PsyCop 1: Among The Living?
