Book Title: Phantom
Dreams
Author: T.K. Harris
Release Date: June 7th
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Length: 81,956 words, 273 pages
Publisher: GMTA Publishing LLC
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
Cover Design by: Benjamin
Poelman and Tipping Point
Interview with T.K. Harris
- What do you do while writing? TV?
Radio? Radio. Depending on what
I'm writing or working on with the book, I'm either listening to something
like Moby or Skrillex.
- Do you use names of people you know in your book?
Yes and No. What I mean is, I'll pick names and features
from different people I know and then mesh them together with other features
and personalities – most of it made up – in order to create a character.
- Is it hard to research your story to make sure it is new and different?
In the case of Phantom
Dreams, no. I was familiar with the
area because I used to live in that region and I kept too many
"researchable" ideas out of this book mainly because this was my
first attempt from going from selling short stories to a novel and that was
hard enough.
BUT, in the book I'm writing now
– The Gillespie Five – research is definitely hard. I've read so many books and articles on
hackers, hacking, the NSA, FBI, etc that I'm waiting for one of those U.S. Military drones to show up outside my office
window!
- What is your favorite book? Just
one?! Impossible. I can't name just one. Starting from my childhood favorites
like all the Alice and Wonderland and Nancy Drew books to everything from
fantasy and sci-fi to more mysteries.
I love them all!
- What is your favorite song? The
River by Garth Brooks. I don't want
to be that person just standing on the shoreline and watching my dreams
slip away without becoming a reality.
- What is the one thing in your house
you can not live without? (pets and family excluded). My laptop with internet connection.
- What is the oldest thing in your
refrigerator? I'm not
sure. But I think I've started a
new life form.
- What
would you like my readers to know? Don't doubt yourself. If you write, you're a writer. And if you're willing to put in hours
upon hours of hard work for someone else, why wouldn't you do the same for
yourself? Just write that book
already and spend the time to do it write, er, I mean right.
BLURB
FBI Special Agent Jack Matthews finds himself on yet another
serial killer case, having barely recovered from the last disastrous hunt.
Still stiff from a gun shot wound in his leg, under investigation for a botched
job, and having lost his fiancée when she walked out on him, Jack is beginning
to wonder if it isn’t time to move on to something new. But, for Jack, these
cases are personal and he can’t say no.
Marketing specialist Kathy Gilliam leads a fairly boring life. If she’s not working or caring for her ailing father, then she is doing whatever it takes to avoid going anywhere near crowds of people. Her few distractions include her friend Margo Longfellow, occasional hiking trips, and her increasingly alarming dreams of women dying.
As her nightmares cause her to begin to doubt her sanity, the media releases news of the “Coast-to-Coast Killer” and Kathy discovers her dreams may be related. In a moment of panic, Kathy does something that places her on the FBI’s “persons of interest” list. Suddenly, her life is set on a collision course with Jack who must decide if Kathy is the killer or destined to become a victim.
Marketing specialist Kathy Gilliam leads a fairly boring life. If she’s not working or caring for her ailing father, then she is doing whatever it takes to avoid going anywhere near crowds of people. Her few distractions include her friend Margo Longfellow, occasional hiking trips, and her increasingly alarming dreams of women dying.
As her nightmares cause her to begin to doubt her sanity, the media releases news of the “Coast-to-Coast Killer” and Kathy discovers her dreams may be related. In a moment of panic, Kathy does something that places her on the FBI’s “persons of interest” list. Suddenly, her life is set on a collision course with Jack who must decide if Kathy is the killer or destined to become a victim.
T.K. Harris was born long, long ago in a galaxy (known as California), far,
far away and promptly shipped unceremoniously out of the country to spend the
next several years living in the Netherlands (in a cupboard under the stairs).
Upon return to the U.S. at the ripe old age of 8ish, Harris spent the next
several years in a variety of states growing up (sort of) to become a software
engineer and IT manager, traveling and living in even more states as well as
other countries.
Harris has been writing since childhood and, through the years, has had
several short stories published by various magazines, including one in Woman's
World. Phantom Dreams is Harris's first published novel.Harris currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado as a Senior Solutions Architect and IT Instructor and is working on the next book: The Gillespie Five.
Find out more at: http://www.tkharrisonline.com.
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