NETWORK OF DECEIT:

An Amara Alvarez

Stand-Alone Novel

by

Tom Threadgill

Genre: Mystery / Suspense / Detective

Publisher: Revell

Date of Publication: February 2, 2021

Number of Pages: 384 pages

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She’s following her instincts. They’re following her every move.

After her rescue of nearly fifty kidnapped children made international headlines, Amara Alvarez gets what she’s worked for: a transfer to San Antonio’s Homicide Division. But reality sets in quickly when her first case, the suspicious death of a teenager at a crowded local water park, plunges her life into chaos.

As the investigation moves forward, Amara finds herself stalked online by cybercriminals who uncover her personal life in frightening detail. With few leads, she’s forced to resort to unconventional methods to find the killer and prevent her first murder investigation from ending up in the cold case files.

Tom Threadgill is back with another riveting page-turner featuring the detective who is willing to put everything on the line to see justice served and lives protected.

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Many thanks to Tom Threadgill for taking a few moments to answer a few questions for us.

How do you write? Any backstory to your choice?

I always tell people that the most useful thing I learned in college was how to type. That’s a knock on me, not the college. We used an IBM Selectric and did our share of “now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country” repetitions. Something about a “quick brown fox” too if I remember correctly. Since then, I’ve always preferred typing over writing. Nowadays, most of my work is done on my laptop.

What made you decide to write a sequel? Any unexpected hurdles in doing this?

I wrote the first book, Collision of Lies, with a sequel in mind. Although Collision works as a stand-alone novel, the characters have so much more to share. For the sequel, I wanted to take the relationships deeper and ratchet up the conflicts. So much work goes into getting the characters introduced to readers that it’s hard for me to go with a “one and done” story.

What did you find most useful in learning to write for publication?  What was least useful or most destructive?

My first step in learning to write for publication was to recognize that my early work needed considerable improvement before it could be released upon an unsuspecting world. Being an author requires constant training and research to get better. I attended quite a few conferences and read several books on the craft. I took feedback from publishers and editors seriously, even though I didn’t always agree. One thing I’ve never been a fan of is using beta readers. I may ask for input on specific scenes but for the most part no one reads my books before they’re finished.

Do you now or have you ever considered writing under a pen name? Why or why not?

I’ve never written under an assumed name and don’t ever plan to. My name is my brand. I can understand there might be situations where using a pen name could be beneficial, especially if I branched into different genres, but I personally don’t see that the benefit would ever outweigh the need to build my brand. Every author needs to build a group of loyal readers. Every writer’s style is different. When someone “discovers” an author they like, it’s important the reader start to build a connection to that writer. From my perspective, unless you’ve used the same pen name for all your books, you harm your brand by alternating author names.

How important are names to you in your books? How do you choose names?

I despise choosing names for my characters. Hate it. Most of the names get changed several times during the writing process, though they’re pretty well set by the editing stage. I honestly don’t know why it’s such a struggle for me but trying to find the right name drives me crazy. True story. In one of my early books, I’d chosen what I considered to be the perfect name for my serial killer. The book was on the way to the publisher and very few people knew the details. One of my sons called soon after to let me know they’d chosen the perfect name for my soon-to-be-here granddaughter. Yep. Same name as my serial killer. We were able to change the name in the novel, fortunately.

What do you want your tombstone to say?

“He was cremated. Not sure why he wasted money on a tombstone. But buy his books anyway.” Maybe put one of those QR codes on the tombstone too so people can just scan it to go to my website.

Tom Threadgill is a full-time author and a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). He is currently on the suspense/thriller publishing board for LPC Books, a division of Iron Stream Media. He lives with his wife in rural Tennessee.

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GRANDPRIZE (US only):

One copy of each COLLISION OF LIES AND NETWORK OF DECEIT

and a note pad

Giveaway ends Midnight, CST, February 27, 2021

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