Our gravest danger

This trivial incident was really the spark for Coyote Fork. I was already alarmed by the ever-growing impact of the internet on our lives. But the Sofia weather forecast brought home to me the reality of digital surveillance in an entirely personal way. I knew, then, that I wanted to write a book about the effects of Big Tech. The question was, what sort of book? All my previous novels had been historical, using voices that were appropriate to the periods in which they were set.

This, by contrast, had by definition to be a contemporary story - and not just contemporary, but located at the very edge of the present, at the point where it collides with the future. What form would be best suited to it?