Congratulations to the winners in the Trial Run sweepstakes! Grand Prize Taylor Wasson, from Washington State, won an iPad mini. Taylor is a student at the University of Washington, studying marketing, international business, and French. I’ll bet the iPad mini will come in handy! First Prize Karen Hadley from Oklahoma and Heidi Dru Kortman from…
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Q&A With Thomas Locke: Do you alter details of real places to suit the story?
Q: Several settings in Trial Run (Santa Barbara, CA, the Italian/Swiss border site) depict real places. How do you select these real-life settings for your stories, and do you alter details of these places to suit your stories? Thomas Locke: When John Grisham published The Client, a number of readers wrote in to say that he…
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…
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…
Thomas Locke Skypes with Alton Gansky on Writer’s Talk
I recently had the honor of doing a Skype interview with Alton Gansky, host of Writer’s Talk. You can watch the video on YouTube (below) or download it from iTunes, Stitcher, or Podbean. We talked about loads of topics, including Legends of the Realm (my new fantasy series) and Fault Lines (my upcoming techno-thriller series),…
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Journey into
the Realm
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