Ronald L. Moore's Blog: Thriller Thoughts

Writers often get asked what other authors they read. I'm a big special ops thriller fan, so I read Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills, Daniel Silva, Mark Greaney, Lee Child, Jack Carr, and Ben Coes. I'm looking forward to starting to read Jack Slater as well. I also like some speculative fiction, and read Blake Crouch, AG Riddle, and Patrick Lee. Also, I like Brad Meltzer. I love Dan Brown's stories. I like Michael Crichton and Dean Koontz. I enjoyed all the Harry Potter books, and all the Percy Jackson novels. I also read a fair bit of pop physics, from people like Richard Panek and Brian Greene.

Greetings. I'm glad you found your way here. Check back often as I'll be posting periodically about the progress and process as we are working on book 7 in the Vatican Secret Archives Thrillers. I'll leave you with this first thought: The best way to tell a lie is to wrap it in the truth. Writing a thriller novel is an exercise in telling lies. We are creating a fiction. It's a story. But for it to be a good, believable story, you should think that it could have happened. So part of our process is to base our stories on things that did happen, and then speculate on how things could have been different if we inserted certain fictions, and let our characters interact with them. Also, we do a tremendous amount of research, so our fictions can be as close to reality as possible. I hope you enjoy reading the books as much as we enjoy crafting them.