Today’s author shares her alternative history thriller with a biological weapon angle – a topic that’s sure to send some chills down your spine. I love her ‘take charge’ attitude when faced with a creepy situation at home – I’d probably do the same thing in her situation. Welcome T.A. Henry!
You’re in a horror movie. Are you the final person, the first to die, the comic relief, the skeptic, the smart one, or the killer?
This actually just came up at a party and without a doubt I am Samuel L. Jackson from Deep Blue Sea. I have a plan. I’ve been through shit before. And if you all would just listen to me before the shark eats me, we’ll be fine. But no. I’m the one who gets eaten halfway through explaining our survival plan.
Creepiest thing that’s ever happened while you were alone?
We had just moved to the PNW. My hubs is back in Cali on personal business. I am home with the kiddo, who is upstairs in bed sleeping. I am watching a movie with headphones on so I don’t wake up the kiddo. I get up for a beverage refill and the door to the laundry room is open. Could have sworn I closed that but maybe not. I close it. Go back to the movie. Get up to recycle said beverage and the laundry room door is open. I grabbed a butcher knife from the counter and start prowling the house, turning on every light, checking in every closet, under every bed. I even check the kiddos room with a flashlight, just in case. Then I come back downstairs, shut the laundry room door, again and sit down in a chair in front of it to wait. LOL
How do you develop your plots and characters?
I don’t. They spring my head fully formed like Athena. Ok, fine, I lie. But if you think about it, that’s what being an author is, lying convincingly in writing. Often an idea comes to me through the ethos. I know I should plot it out and work out whether it has legs, but really, I don’t. I just start writing on it. And if more comes to me, it becomes something, and if not, it dies a slow death. One of these days I should learn to properly vet my ideas. I’ve read several books on it.
What is the hardest part of writing?
Getting people to read it. LOL.
What’s your work schedule like when you’re writing?
Any spare minute I can. I also teach part time at a small co-op school and home school my child.
What are you working on now?
Currently, I am writing the sequel to my police procedural, The Body in the Pool, as well as a story that came along and insisted it needed my time.
It’s November 1990, the Cold War is all but over. The weapons coming out of the disintegrating USSR have never been hotter. Twenty tons of weaponized Smallpox have gone missing. Enter Galatea, a Mossad assassin with single-minded devotion to her country – until this assignment makes her question which side of the line she wants to live on. Throw in an eclectic group of operatives with shifting loyalties and an analyst who thinks he runs the world – what’s to worry?
It’s just the population of the world hanging in the balance.
Where history meets speculative fiction.
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Author Bio
Transplanted from the monochromatic weather of the Silicon Valley with her hubby and kiddo, T.A. Henry now thrives in the rain and thunder of the Pacific Northwest. While a degree in History did not provide a lucrative career, it did teach this author how to research with the best of them. She reads non-fiction constantly and likes to use everything she absorbs as fodder for another novel.
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Sounds like a cool premise. Wishing her all the best!
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Doesn’t it? I’ve read some thrillers involving biological weapons, and it’s scary to think what could happen. Thanks, Staci!
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The premise actually came out of documented history. Tell me that doesn’t make your knees quake?
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Very cool book cover!
I am really loving all the creepy moments everyone is sharing in these interviews.
Best wishes to T.A!
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So am I, Mae – really puts you in the Halloween mood.
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Oddly enough, I’ve been doing some biological weapons research lately myself.
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I’m intrigued already.
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Project timed to release next year.
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Oh, it sounds perfect for Bad Moon — a thrilling read. Nice to meet TA.
Hugs to you both!
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Thrills and chills – so it fits right in. Hugs, Teagan!
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Thanks!
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You’re very welcome!
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Love your humor, T.A.! I would have been hiding under kiddos bed, not waiting for the bad guy to make an appearance 🙂
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bwahahaha. When all was said and done, the door was hung off kilter and opened itself. LOL.
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Wondered what the outcome was, lol!
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Thank goodness that laundry room door didn’t have a squeak. Can you imagine that happening and not being able to have heard it because you had headphones on? Worse still, hearing the squeak through the headphones and thinking it’s on the movie you’re watching when it’s not 😱
Great to meet and T.A and to read some stuff about her book.
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Sounds like a perfect scene from a horror movie, Hugh!
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