The Founder’s Day author commentary continues with a look at the new dynamic duo of the series: Loren and Myers! SPOILER WARNING ahead.

Meet the new team

One of my favorite elements of Founder’s Day, and one of my main reasons for writing the story, was the chance to see Loren and Myers working together.

It’s the first chance we have to see them as partners. How they interact, how they bounce off each other, and grate each other, were all pieces I wanted to fit into the story.

Samantha Myers versus Soriya Greystone

I didn’t want the debate. There didn’t need to be a who is better as Loren’s partner fight. We already know the answer to that. It’s why the series opens with Soriya and Loren. This is their story and always will be.

So how to make it different with Myers on the team?

This is why I included the opening with them looking for Bartleby Kindt. I wanted to show Loren as the senior member of the team and the mistakes made due to the new dynamic of working with Myers.

He is hesitant to bring her fully into the fold, using what he’s learned from Soriya. He doesn’t want the same fights he used to cause as the grounded character and it ends up leading to trouble.

It’s a playful moment in a pretty dark story.

The strength in the procedural…

This was the other element I was happy to be able to explore with Founder’s Day. The procedural has always been fascinating to me. I love the structure of it and the way it feeds from exposition to action or character piece.

Watch an episode of Bones and you’ll see this worked seamlessly into every lab scene. It either opens with the character piece and then dives into the exposition to advance the case or the other way around. Every single time. (My wife thinks it is hilarious that I watch for the character and not the technical aspects of the case.)

That’s what I wanted to showcase here. How these two operate in comparison to Soriya, how they take apart a case and how they use each other’s foibles to play off each other.

The honest truth

I love Myers. I find writing her a treat and wish I could squeeze her into every scene. Having this small moment in time, this incredibly critical moment in the series to put the spotlight on her dynamic with Loren was an absolute blast.

How things go from here will have to wait until A Circle of Shadows arrives on September 11th…