Posts Categorized: Legends of the Realm Series

Q: Do you foresee the books in The Legends of the Realm series being made into major motion pictures? Thomas Locke: Two weeks after signing the book contracts, I received word that a UK film company had decided to acquire film rights to Emissary. I desperately wanted to write the script, but for a project…

In about half the stories I write, there is a specific instance on which I model the story structure. But not in the case of Emissary. One morning, it just sort of arrived. I had a sense of walking into a full-blown concept of what I wanted to do. There’s one scene in particular where…

I used my favorite quote from J.R.R. Tolkien as the structure for the story: “Not all who wander are lost.” One issue Hyam (the male protagonist) faces is that he doesn’t fit in. From the beginning – in the first few pages of the book – Hyam is forced to accept that that his father…