Nov. 22 - Forget asteroids hurtling down on our planet. But it represents a bit of daring on Mosley's part. Publishers don't like it when authors change direction, claiming it confuses readers.
Some authors resort to pseudonyms.
Mosley wants to be known as multifaceted and has mounted his own defense in a Nov. 1 New York Times Sunday Magazine article. Mosley assembles a dazzling crew of characters. Claudia Zimmerman becomes a sex goddess, reducing men to quivering anticipation just by being. Horace LaFontaine, dying just before the blue light, is reanimated but becomes the receptacle of an evil that wants only to destroy. A coyote becomes intelligent.