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TG Trouper
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom (the)
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, New Adult, Crime, Horror
Skills: Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview, Performance/Spoken Word
I was born and raised in Essex England. I've always been a bit of a dreamer and I suppose I've always wanted to write, but growing up I assumed that this was what other people did. In my twenties I tried my hand at writing science fiction, I thought 'that will be easy, I just have to use my imagination' but writing good original Sci-Fi is absurdly difficult. Then life gets in the way in the form of work, marriage, more work, children, more work etc... But I do remember the exact point where I decided to actually start, it was June 23rd 2011 at around 6.50 pm. I was on my way home from work and approaching a junction onto the A10. I was thinking about two terrible books I had read on holiday - maybe I should have been thinking about the junction I was approaching. Anyway, one book had wholly illogical scenarios that even suspension of belief couldn't resolve, and the other kept using the same six word phrase. They were almost an insult to read. I thought to myself 'I could write better than that' and my next thought was 'I suppose I'd better try' so I did. I was tentative at first and unsure of what I was doing (didn't actually have a clue), but it wasn't until I retired from work to look after elderly parents that I found the time to put my ideas together into the novel that became the first in the Astrid series first self-published in 2019. I now write constantly and I am constantly learning.
TG Trouper's books
Astrid book 1:War changes people
Astrid is a young actress who gets her big break in a film and on that day her country is attacked by a belligerent neighbour. She sees friends die and that changes her. She gives up dreams of stardom and becomes a nurse. Two years later a traumatic incident changes her moral compass and she joins her military as an assassin. She retains her acting skills which enable her to move through enemy territory hiding in plain sight. She is driven by two things, one is to do anything she can to bring the war to an end and the second is to seek out and kill one specific enemy officer.
Genre: Female led action thriller
Astrid book 2: Good people do bad things
Set approximately ten years after book I, it sees Astrid getting disillusioned with the war. Nothing she does seems to be bringing it to an end and she hasn't been able to track down the enemy officer. She makes a mistake on a mission and is captured, she escapes but as she makes her way out of the country she kills some civilians and that plays on her mind.
Genre: Female led action thriller
Astrid book 3: The early missions
This book fills in the back stories of four main characters and the events that made the what they became. Astrid has a baptism of fire fighting on the front line. Brigit Malaya, the enemy officer that Astrid seeks, has to fight not only the enemy but also the entrenched misogyny in her country. Riedel, Astrid's love interest, becomes a deep cover spy, spending years in the enemy country trying to find out what their wonder weapon is. Aleska is an arrogant civilian working at the enemy's high command who feels slighted and under appreciated. She begins to leak secrets, oblivious to the harm they cause.
Genre: Female led action thriller
Perfect Strangers
Sophie and Paul have been together for eight years, living together for five and engaged for three. They are just weeks away from the holiday of a lifetime after which they will finally make plans for their wedding. Then a new man arrives at Sophie's work. They work closely together and he seems to know exactly how a woman wants to be treated. She starts to question her future with her fiancé. Paul meets Marty who seems like an amalgam of every friend he had ever had. They bond over similar deeply personal and emotional experiences. Then Marty introduces Paul to a hidden world where his every desire will be fulfilled.
Genre: Tales of the unexpected/Hammer house of horror.
The Story - be careful what you read
Gabby buys Daniel's an eBook to take on holiday. He starts to read it and soon becomes concerned that events in the story parallel things the he and Gabby have done. He dismisses it as coincidence, but the more he reads the more their future seems to be predicted by the story. Soon the text starts to change in front of his eyes. He ignores Gabby, driving her into the arms of another man. The eBook communicates with Daniel, telling him that he must never stop reading.
Genre: Supernatural suspense