by Tom | Sep 23, 2021 | John Tyler thrillers, Things I Wrote, Writing
Below is a sample of Lost Highway, the third John Tyler thriller. Chapter One Nothing in John Tyler’s life prepared him for this. He’d felt similarly before. Not ready. In over his head. The first time he went on a Special Operations raid in Afghanistan. When Lexi was...
by Tom | Sep 12, 2020 | John Tyler thrillers, Things I Wrote, Writing
Below is chapter 1 of my upcoming action thriller The Mechanic. It’ll be the first book in the John Tyler series. A preorder link follows at the end. === “There you go. Line it up and squeeze the trigger.” John Tyler directed his daughter Lexi using the...
by Tom | May 19, 2019 | C.T. Ferguson Mysteries, Things I Wrote, Writing
I’ve had a couple readers reach out to me and ask why the C.T. Ferguson mystery series is ending. Short answer: it’s not. Longer answer: it’s an open-ended series. I just released the fifth book, Daughters and Sons. Amazon displays this is...
by Tom | Aug 26, 2017 | Craft, Things I Wrote, Writing
Not every idea germinating in a writer’s mind is a novel. Some are short stories. One that gets trapped between those two is a novella. Novellas don’t get a lot of love. Everyone wants to write novels. Readers want to read novels. Some writers will put out...
by Tom | May 13, 2017 | Short Stories, Things I Wrote
A couple weeks ago, I started circulating a set of three short stories to introduce prospective readers to C.T. Ferguson, my private investigator protagonist. Two days ago, I put it up on Amazon. It’s in Kindle Unlimited, so it’s free if you have that....
by Tom | Apr 29, 2017 | Short Stories, Things I Wrote, Writing
Years ago, Guns n’ Roses said, “I put the pen to the paper ’cause it’s all a part of me.” We’ve moved on from pen and paper in the intervening years, but I did the 21st-Century equivalent and put electronic words onto a screen. I...
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