Write a comedy, which Yost is currently completing with his partner Ron Burla. He also took time out to speak with me about his screenwriting career. Before you were a screenwriter, you were a published author who wrote about spy technology. I wrote a book called SPY TECH which was all about little spy gadgets, the poison pen kind of stuff all the way up to spy satellites. That came out in 1985.
Spy satellites, spy planes, listening devices, that kind of thing.
I knew what magazines to read. If I want to find out about the Stelph Bomber, that s where I read. I learned the lingo, the kind of words people would bandy about and that helped. But I would say doing the books more than anything, specifically SPY TECH taught me more how to research than I d ever known in college. I spent six months researching the book and six months writing it.