Goodreads asked D. Clarence Snyder:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

D. Clarence Snyder In a way, this one has been with me for a long time. I guess it started with the Devo song "Big Mess." Listening to the song (as a kid) I got this idea of a character in a cyberpunk type of world who was a DJ, but he moonlighted as a mercenary. He was a hit-man who hosted a radio talk show about the mercenary profession. The song still inspires me for that sort of duplicitous culture.

Fast forward a decade or so, and I was riding in a car on an elevated highway. I looked over to a city going by, and another inspirational song came on the radio. It wasn't so much the song (Peter Gabriel's "Your Eyes") as the sound, and I was overwhelmed by this desire to write a story that was "sexy... like the city at night."

Okay, so I've been drawn to the genre, but I didn't want to do something dark and brooding. Then it occurred to me that people in adventure stories had to live in the world before and after the adventure. The Cookie Caper came to me as I was writing pitches for a new creator-owned comic publisher. I envisioned it as a series, which was set in a "cyber" kind of world but was, at its core, a slice-of-life comedy. As a comic book series, I was less concerned with the story and more with the characters. Stories would just be jobs, and we'd go from there.

The first job? Well, what would be funny, but at the same time deadly serious? How about some kind of super cookie? After all no one would really hire a mercenary to wreck action story level mayhem over cookies, right? M&M/Mars bought Wrigley for $23 billion in 2008--all cash. Oreo made two billion dollars in revenue in 2013. Funny because people don't think of gum and cookies like that; serious because billion dollar fortunes are always serious.

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