Here’s this week’s interactive jigsaw puzzle, featuring a new scene from Trial Run, my techno-thriller that releases August 4. Each week’s puzzle is getting progressively more challenging. This puzzle has 72 pieces. Tortoise & Hare Awards Last week’s winners of the Tortoise and Hare awards are: Tortoise Award: Connie Brown, at 13:14 Hare Award: Amanda…
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Q&A with Thomas Locke: How do you use the ‘Tapestry’ writing strategy in ‘Trial Run’?
Q: In Trial Run, you introduce several seemingly unrelated threads at the beginning of the story. By the end of the story, those threads have become woven together in an intricate tapestry. Please explain your thought process behind this writing strategy, and also, how you envision your reader as part of this tapestry. Thomas Locke: One…
Interactive Jigsaw Puzzle #2 from ‘Trial Run’
Here’s this week’s interactive jigsaw puzzle, featuring a new scene from Trial Run, my techno-thriller that releases August 4. This week’s puzzle is more challenging than last week’s. This puzzle has 60 pieces in shapes that are a bit trickier. I’m thinking of awarding a “hare” prize to the person who puts the puzzle together…
Q&A with Thomas Locke: Who is the ideal reader of ‘Trial Run’?
Thomas Locke: I suspect there are a lot of readers out there like me, who love mainstream fiction in principle, but are dismayed by how dark it is becoming. I love to read. I am happiest with a good book in my hands. And most of my purchases are mainstream fiction. Too often, however, I find…
First reader reviews of ‘Trial Run’ techno-thriller
Early reviews from members of “Team Trial Run” are coming in. I love finding out what readers think of this first book in the Fault Lines techno-thriller series (TRIAL RUN releases August 4, 2015; you can pre-order it now). Here are excerpts from reviews by: Sherry Arni Dave Milbrandt Eddie Gilley Linda Pusey Robin Bunting…
Interactive, Virtual Jigsaw Puzzle of ‘Trial Run’
I thought you’d enjoy something a little different. It’s a “virtual” jigsaw puzzle! You can put it together right here on my blog, or you can click this link to play it at JigsawPlanet.com. This 50-piece puzzle features a quote from “Double Edge,” the free ebook prequel to Trial Run (Trial Run is my techno-thriller…
Video Trailer for Trial Run
Where does perception end and reality begin? Can your mind actually cause something to happen in the real world? What happens when we throw out our conception of the limits of space and time? One thing remains clear: What you don’t know CAN kill you. Watch the video trailer: Trial Run: A daring psychological journey…
Free eBook: Double Edge
Excitement is building for the August 4 release of Trial Run, the first book in my new techno-thriller series. To help prepare you for what’s to come in Trial Run, you can download the prequel, Double Edge, for free! In Double Edge, you’ll discover how — and why — Charlie Hazard first encountered the mystery…
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