by Nick Thacker
“Like, a few minutes?”
‘A few months. Take some time to rest, Gareth. You as well, Joshua. If you accept, there will be training programs designed individually for each of you. And Julie and Ben, I suppose you two will get little rest. I hear a congratulations is in order.’
Reggie and Joshua laughed, and Mrs. E smiled. Ben’s face flushed a bit, but Julie reached over and placed her hand on his arm.
Reggie watched, his huge smile returning, and waited for Ben to look over at him. “Ben, if Joshua ends up being your best man over me, I’ll make sure your face stays like that forever.”
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A Brief Note...
I’m guessing because he keeps mentioning me in his books, I should return the favor. So I hereby dedicate this book to my good friend, Kevin Tumlinson.
In all seriousness, I really should dedicate my entire author career to the guy — after all, I didn’t feel like I was very serious about my writing life until I met Kevin (online, of course, because that’s what the cool kids are doing). I know he’ll argue with that, but it’s true. Kevin helped me realize something: I am a writer, whether I like it or not, so I’d better just own it.
So, here’s to “owning it.” The Ice Chasm marks something around 1 million published words for me. That’s 1 with a lot of zeroes behind it. Crazy. Stephen King wrote that the first million words were practice, and I’m a bit terrified to think that whatever I write next has to be the real deal. No more practice for me!
As for the concept of this one, it’s quite simple. I write the Harvey Bennett thrillers using a simple formula: Cool technology + cool place. For this one, it’s artificial intelligence in Antarctica. I already had a “bad guy,” and if you’ve read either The Enigma Strain or The Amazon Code you’ll be familiar with the villain that appears in this series so far. I wanted to write a villain that was still flawed in a realistic way, to counteract the flaws I’ve given Ben, Julie, Joshua, and everyone’s new favorite character Reggie.
Back to Kevin: we both seem to be orbiting each other, at least in the scope of our work. In his last book there was a very kind mention of me, so I’ve returned the favor (see if you can spot it!). And since we are both loving this genre, we have plans to write some sort of mashup. We’re still trying to figure out who would win in a fight between Dan Kotler and Harvey Bennett (I know, it’s obvious to me, too!).
So here’s to writing, to Kevin, and as always: to you, dear reader!
Nick Thacker
Colorado Springs, CO
November 2016
Want More?
Fiction:
The Golden Crystal
The Depths
The Enigma Strain
The Amazon Code
The Ice Chasm
The Atlantis Deception (A.G. Riddle’s The Origins Mystery series)
The Lucid: Episode One (written with Kevin Tumlinson)
The Lucid: Episode Two (written with Kevin Tumlinson)
The Lucid: Episode Three (written with Kevin Tumlinson
Relics: The Dawn (Book 1)
Relics: Reckoning (Book 2)
Killer Thrillers (3-Book Box Set)
Short Stories
I, Sergeant
Instinct
The Gray Picture of Dorian
Uncanny Divide
Nonfiction:
Welcome Home: The Author's Guide to Building A Marketing Home Base
Expert Blogging: Building A Blog for Readers
The Dead-Simple Guide to Guest Posts
The Dead-Simple Guide to Amazing Headlines
The Dead-Simple Guide to Pillar Content
About the Author
Nick Thacker is an author from Texas who lives in a cabin on a mountain in Colorado, because Colorado has mountains, microbreweries, and fantastic weather. In his free time, he enjoys reading, brewing beer (and whisky), skiing, golfing, and hanging out with his beautiful wife, tortoise, and three dogs.
In addition to his fiction work, Nick is the author of several nonfiction books on marketing, publishing, writing, and building online platforms.
If you are interested in learning more about the fiction writing process and time-management for writers, be sure to check out The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Writing Fiction (www.writehacked.com/course), a completely FREE 20-week e-course!
Visit Nick’s website at www.nickthacker.com to find updates about upcoming releases!