Inside the Mind of Pendelton Wallace #AmWriting #Mystery #Suspense
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2014
Inside the Mind of an Author
You don’t want to know what goes on in my mind. It will shock and scare you.
You don’t want to know what goes on in my mind. It will shock and scare you.
I was at a writers conference and heard James Rollins tell a good story.
He
said that most people wake up on Sunday morning and think about the
golf game they’re going to play or the football game they want to watch.
He lays in bed on Sunday morning and thinks of interesting new ways to
kill people.
I’m
kind of like that. I don’t make up my story lines. I get them from the
newspapers and news reports. I couldn’t make this kind of stuff up.
However, once I have the story line, I have to add enough sex, murder
and mayhem along the way to keep my readers interested.
I
have so much trash and dirt in my mind that it could never be
published. Hmm . . . maybe I should take a short at the erotica genre.
Seriously though, if you’re a girl, you may not want to date me. Most of
my erotic scenes are from memories of “the women I have loved before.”
I’m
always looking at people, places and situations and thinking how they
could fit into a book. Many of my friends and co-workers have wiggled
their way in to books. They may not recognize themselves, but little
pieces of their personalities become quirks of my characters.
I have a character in The Mexican Connection,
who did not know her husband was a drug dealer until the DEA knocked
down her door. This really happened. I met “Lisa” many years after the
incident, but it was still indelibly etched on her character. A story
like that just had to end up in print.
My
head is exploding with ideas, I will never be able to write them all
down. I keep a folder on my computer called “Story Ideas.” I have files
in it with little kernels that may or may not someday become stories.
But I write them down so I don’t lose them.
I know the story line for the next two Ted Higuera novels. I just have to read the newspapers.
I
hope someday to be able to write historical fiction. I have at least
three stories that I would like to tell. The first is about my
great-grandfather in the Civil War. The next is about how my maternal
grandfather came to this country and how he met my grandmother. Then
there is the story about the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama. What
drama.
My mind never stops. I just don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up.
If Clive Cussler had written Ugly Betty, it would be Hacker for Hire.
Hacker for Hire, a suspense novel about corporate greed and industrial espionage, is the second book in a series about Latino computer security analyst Ted Higuera and his best friend, para-legal Chris Hardwick.
The goofy, off-beat Ted Higuera, son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in East LA. An unlikely football scholarship brought him to Seattle.
Chris, Ted’s college roommate, grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father is the head of one of Seattle’s most prestigious law firms.
Ted’s first job out of college leads him into the world of organized crime where he faces a brutal beating. After being rescued by beautiful private investigator Catrina Flaherty, Ted decides to go to work for her.
Catrina is hired by a large computer corporation to find a leak in their corporate boardroom when the previous consultant is found floating in Elliot Bay.
Ted discovers that Chris’s firm has been retained by their prime suspect. Now he and Chris are working opposite sides of the same case.
Ted and Catrina are led deep into Seattle’s Hi-Tech world as they stalk the killer. But the killer is also hunting them. Can Ted find the killer before the killer finds him?
Hacker for Hire, a suspense novel about corporate greed and industrial espionage, is the second book in a series about Latino computer security analyst Ted Higuera and his best friend, para-legal Chris Hardwick.
The goofy, off-beat Ted Higuera, son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in East LA. An unlikely football scholarship brought him to Seattle.
Chris, Ted’s college roommate, grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father is the head of one of Seattle’s most prestigious law firms.
Ted’s first job out of college leads him into the world of organized crime where he faces a brutal beating. After being rescued by beautiful private investigator Catrina Flaherty, Ted decides to go to work for her.
Catrina is hired by a large computer corporation to find a leak in their corporate boardroom when the previous consultant is found floating in Elliot Bay.
Ted discovers that Chris’s firm has been retained by their prime suspect. Now he and Chris are working opposite sides of the same case.
Ted and Catrina are led deep into Seattle’s Hi-Tech world as they stalk the killer. But the killer is also hunting them. Can Ted find the killer before the killer finds him?
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Genre – Mystery, Thriller
Rating – R
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