Ask the Author: Tom Tinney
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Tom Tinney
The Sprawl series by William Gibson. I'd be a street hustler selling illegal cyberware.
Tom Tinney
David Weber.
Don't really care about music anymore (Musicians and singers spouting off has spoiled their art for me), but I guess the Beatles.
Steak.
Don't really care about music anymore (Musicians and singers spouting off has spoiled their art for me), but I guess the Beatles.
Steak.
Tom Tinney
Lots, but in Audiobook form. I've found that I can use the 40 min to an hour of my morning and afternoon commute to get a lot in.
So far the Manticore Ascendant Series, The Expeditionary Forces, Galaxy's Edge, and anything by #LarryCorreia have made the list.
So far the Manticore Ascendant Series, The Expeditionary Forces, Galaxy's Edge, and anything by #LarryCorreia have made the list.
Tom Tinney
Not so much a mystery, but a great book. I was in a motorcycle accident 17 years ago. Died on the table twice. An interesting story by itself.
Afterward, they had me in a chemically induced coma for 6 weeks in ICU. Unfortunately, I was sometimes lucid enough to pick up the "Real world". That wouldn't have been so bad, but I was not a good patient and required a baby sitter to keep me from tearing out feeder tubes and IV's. Those baby-sitters in the ICU apparently liked action flicks. What did that mean for me? Well, I grabbed just enough reality to spend 6 weeks fighting a Ninja Wesley snipes, avoiding assassins sent to kill me and escaping from a sinking ship where a evil rich person had trapped me....in my head. All very vivid and all very real to me at the time.
Once I became lucid and they reduced the inducement drugs, I was on the path to healing. But sometimes, when someone came into the room, my heart would take off and I would grab the nearest object to defend myself. My wife would ask me what was wrong and I would tell her the person was “Here to kill me!” and be deadly serious. I wasn’t crazy. See, the person was a nurse, tech or doctor, someone sent to draw blood for tests or physically test my broken parts. They did those tasks while I was in my Semi-comatose state, so I had seen their faces and integrated them into my “other memory” of events. So, when they poked me with a needle, in my Ninja waking-dream, they were trying to kill me. When they cinched down my arm to keep me from screwing up my broken collar bone, I saw a shark chewing my arm. As I came back to reality, those thoughts and experiences (however twisted by the drugs they were) became imbedded as memories, vs dreams. They were real to me, so the threat was real to me.
It took a week or two to stop breaking out a sweat and keep my heart from racing when people would come in that I “recognized”.
I was eventually released, and during physical therapy, I went back to visit the ICU crew and thank them for their work. I did have a discussion with them about my “Dream state/Coma” experience. They had never had someone tell them what was going on with the patient and they talked about seeing me stressing out without knowing why. Now they knew….and hopefully they watch a lot of painting with Bob Ross, and relaxing comedies, rather than action flicks while babysitting. I don’t have any Idea how it would have turned out if they had watched Spanish TV Novellas.
I still need to write a book about the experience because the “adventure” I went on while in the coma is still preserved as memories for me, like it all really happened.
Afterward, they had me in a chemically induced coma for 6 weeks in ICU. Unfortunately, I was sometimes lucid enough to pick up the "Real world". That wouldn't have been so bad, but I was not a good patient and required a baby sitter to keep me from tearing out feeder tubes and IV's. Those baby-sitters in the ICU apparently liked action flicks. What did that mean for me? Well, I grabbed just enough reality to spend 6 weeks fighting a Ninja Wesley snipes, avoiding assassins sent to kill me and escaping from a sinking ship where a evil rich person had trapped me....in my head. All very vivid and all very real to me at the time.
Once I became lucid and they reduced the inducement drugs, I was on the path to healing. But sometimes, when someone came into the room, my heart would take off and I would grab the nearest object to defend myself. My wife would ask me what was wrong and I would tell her the person was “Here to kill me!” and be deadly serious. I wasn’t crazy. See, the person was a nurse, tech or doctor, someone sent to draw blood for tests or physically test my broken parts. They did those tasks while I was in my Semi-comatose state, so I had seen their faces and integrated them into my “other memory” of events. So, when they poked me with a needle, in my Ninja waking-dream, they were trying to kill me. When they cinched down my arm to keep me from screwing up my broken collar bone, I saw a shark chewing my arm. As I came back to reality, those thoughts and experiences (however twisted by the drugs they were) became imbedded as memories, vs dreams. They were real to me, so the threat was real to me.
It took a week or two to stop breaking out a sweat and keep my heart from racing when people would come in that I “recognized”.
I was eventually released, and during physical therapy, I went back to visit the ICU crew and thank them for their work. I did have a discussion with them about my “Dream state/Coma” experience. They had never had someone tell them what was going on with the patient and they talked about seeing me stressing out without knowing why. Now they knew….and hopefully they watch a lot of painting with Bob Ross, and relaxing comedies, rather than action flicks while babysitting. I don’t have any Idea how it would have turned out if they had watched Spanish TV Novellas.
I still need to write a book about the experience because the “adventure” I went on while in the coma is still preserved as memories for me, like it all really happened.
Tom Tinney
Hey Bekki, Thanks for accepting my invite. I'm really trying to bend the genre's I play in with the intent of the works presenting unique stories, plots and characters.
I've been writing novels since 2012. Started as a challenge to "Turn that novel I had been thinking about" into a real book. "Threads" was written in 6 weeks. 185,000 words. It only took a year to straighten out. Learned a lot in that time about writing, voice and how to create an Self published work.
"Professional" writing started in 2004. I'd been writing articles for a Biker magazine (Quick Throttle) as a contributor, and then editor, for two of their regional editions. So, yes...Biker-Nerd.
I've been writing novels since 2012. Started as a challenge to "Turn that novel I had been thinking about" into a real book. "Threads" was written in 6 weeks. 185,000 words. It only took a year to straighten out. Learned a lot in that time about writing, voice and how to create an Self published work.
"Professional" writing started in 2004. I'd been writing articles for a Biker magazine (Quick Throttle) as a contributor, and then editor, for two of their regional editions. So, yes...Biker-Nerd.
Tom Tinney
Hey Bekki, Thanks for accepting my invite. I'm really trying to bend the genre's I play in with the intent of the works presenting unique stories, plots and characters.
I've been writing novels since 2012. Started as a challenge to "Turn that novel I had been thinking about" into a real book. "Threads" was written in 6 weeks. 185,000 words. It only took a year to straighten out. Learned a lot in that time about writing, voice and how to create an Self published work.
"Professional" writing started in 2004. I'd been writing articles for a Biker magazine (Quick Throttle) as a contributor, and then editor, for two of their regional editions. So, yes...Biker-Nerd.
I've been writing novels since 2012. Started as a challenge to "Turn that novel I had been thinking about" into a real book. "Threads" was written in 6 weeks. 185,000 words. It only took a year to straighten out. Learned a lot in that time about writing, voice and how to create an Self published work.
"Professional" writing started in 2004. I'd been writing articles for a Biker magazine (Quick Throttle) as a contributor, and then editor, for two of their regional editions. So, yes...Biker-Nerd.
Tom Tinney
Life happening. I see stories in just about everything. Human stories of actions, bravery, strife, survival and triumph that I can insert into the universes of my writing, be it SciFi, Fantasy or techno-thriller.
I get bored by any current narrative or forced inclusion based on some sort of preset "Cause of the day". That sort of writing isn't honest and comes of ass condescending and forced to the reader. It is stealing that readers precious time. I let the characters talk and evolve within the writing process, so their story flows through the plot arcs I have designed.
I get bored by any current narrative or forced inclusion based on some sort of preset "Cause of the day". That sort of writing isn't honest and comes of ass condescending and forced to the reader. It is stealing that readers precious time. I let the characters talk and evolve within the writing process, so their story flows through the plot arcs I have designed.
Tom Tinney
"Blood of Invidia" Started as text message with my son,Morgen Batten, who I have never met in person.
"We should write a book..." became a string of about 50 text messages outlining some ideas for a universe and storyline. The messages were put to the side while I published my own science fiction thriller, “Threads: Book one of the Fabric of the Universe”.
It was during that process, I learned the ins and outs of self-publishing, and had some success. I knew that turning our idea into reality was now possible. “Blood of Invidia” was born. We started with the original 51 text messages between he and I. A total of 691 words that became 39 chapters and 115,000 words of our novel "Blood of Invidia". An adventure and mystery with “Aliens, vampires and werewolves. Oh, my”
"We should write a book..." became a string of about 50 text messages outlining some ideas for a universe and storyline. The messages were put to the side while I published my own science fiction thriller, “Threads: Book one of the Fabric of the Universe”.
It was during that process, I learned the ins and outs of self-publishing, and had some success. I knew that turning our idea into reality was now possible. “Blood of Invidia” was born. We started with the original 51 text messages between he and I. A total of 691 words that became 39 chapters and 115,000 words of our novel "Blood of Invidia". An adventure and mystery with “Aliens, vampires and werewolves. Oh, my”
Tom Tinney
The fame and fortune. Hundreds of my fans chasing me through an airport, trying to get me to sign their copy of my book.
Someday.
Right now, it is fun to take the worlds and people that run around in my head and get them out there for the world to see.
Someday.
Right now, it is fun to take the worlds and people that run around in my head and get them out there for the world to see.
Tom Tinney
I rarely get writers block. Once I sit down to write, and reestablish my place in the book progress it flows out. As I said previously, I don't let the "edit bug" slow me down as I drive through the next scenes. I come back and clean up my mess at the end of the session. I also update my outline with new ideas and directions.
Tom Tinney
Write. Write. Write. Stop editing as you write. You can clean up the mess and try to smooth the prose AFTER it's written. I see so many authors languishing and lamenting over every paragraph. Not every sentence has to be a immortalized pearl of wisdom aiming for a writing prize. It's one sentence. Write it and move on.
They never get teh book done.
They never get teh book done.
Tom Tinney
“Blood of Invidia” started as a sequence of text messages between Morgen (who lives in Australia) and myself (here in the USA). “We should write a book about…” began the process.
10,000 years ago, a majestic race of beings waged war across our galaxy. They were the Invidians and they conquered worlds. Driven on to build their empire and fulfill their destiny. But they were mortal, so they sought the secret to eternal life. They found it.
And then they disappeared.
In our near future, powerful and deadly aliens battle in the streets of New York, captured on social media. The question of “Are we alone?” is answered.
Shortly after, three friends find themselves entangled with a mysterious stranger, discovering that humanity isn’t so high on the food chain, and might just be a breadcrumb on the path paved with the “Blood of Invidia”.
10,000 years ago, a majestic race of beings waged war across our galaxy. They were the Invidians and they conquered worlds. Driven on to build their empire and fulfill their destiny. But they were mortal, so they sought the secret to eternal life. They found it.
And then they disappeared.
In our near future, powerful and deadly aliens battle in the streets of New York, captured on social media. The question of “Are we alone?” is answered.
Shortly after, three friends find themselves entangled with a mysterious stranger, discovering that humanity isn’t so high on the food chain, and might just be a breadcrumb on the path paved with the “Blood of Invidia”.
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