Just got my B format advanced copy of Sharp Shooter and it is such a gorgeous HOT pink. It’s also got the first chapter of Sharp Turn in it, so if you see it in shops, have a sneak peek!
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Hi Marianne, Thanks for mentioning the research I do for my thrillers, especially for ‘The Genesis Flaw’. To be honest I have a great deal of fun researching my stories: I’ve ended up in Antarctica for my next thriller, and was lucky enough to spend time onboard the enormous ice-breaker ship, The Aurora Australis, being given a guided tour by the wonderful ship’s master (note, not captain. He told me off for getting that wrong!). When researching ‘The Genesis Flaw’, I really enjoyed learning about the science of genetic engineering, but the highlight had to be the time I spent with a hacker known as “Fosm”, who swept me up into a world of hackers’ jargon and chat rooms, data and identity theft, taught me how to build a Wi-Fi sniper rifle and launch a Denial Of Service attack, and even took me along to a hackers’ conference. Yes, they do have them! The conference was a hoot, I can tell you. I felt as if I’d landed on another planet where everyone spoke a weird unintelligible language. There was an undercurrent of suspicion. I discovered there were three main groups attending – the legitimate info security people, the undercover detectives who hunt down hackers, and the black hat hackers who are up to no good. All very cloak and dagger. Louisa
I also met Ellen Connolly and Candy Sutton, friends, journalists and winners of the true crime section for their book, Lady Killer. And following on the High Rollers announcement, I’m equally delighted to say that Susan Grant won the Be Immortalised in Fiction raffle run by Sisters in Crime at the Davitt Awards, and her name will also be a character in Too Sharp. Congratulations Susan!
I’m pleased to announce that those who purchased the high roller package for the Periodic Table of Awesome project fundraiser will have their names in the next Tara Sharp novel. Daniel Zachariou, Andreas Giannoukakis and Joel Aprile will be characters in Too Sharp!
I thought she also dealt particularly well with the emotions of the parents whose children had been abducted. Novels like this make me feel like I have so much to learn. Brains and Hoo, the galahs in the Tara Sharp novels, are directly based on my three galahs, Bono, Rosy and Possy – and Brains (who has now sadly departed). Galahs are amazingly smart and have *very* distinct characters. I thought it was time you got to meet the real Brains. So here is a picture of her from a few years back. Having never had any pets, we inherited Brains from friends when she was quite old, and we loved her to bits.
So in memory of Brains we acknowledge …
I’ve started work on book 3, hereto titled Too Sharp! This little old story is gonna be set in BrisVegas, as Tara has to get out of Perth for a while to let the heat cool. Can’t wait to share the river city with the world!
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