Welcome back to Two Navy Guys and a Novel where we are less than a month from release of our co-written military thriller, Weapons of Mass Deception.
Last year, when we set out to write our novel, we laid out some guidelines about our story:
We’re pretty happy with how the finished product stacks up against all three of these goals.
A fourth goal that we didn’t talk about explicitly in the beginning had to do with using our hometown—the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul—as part of the story. We had a few reasons for our choice:
Writing about local places was brought home to us in a very real way this past week. One of the scenes in WMD takes place in Glen, Minnesota, a small town about 120 miles north of Minneapolis. The people at the Aitkin Independent Age newspaper were pretty darn excited their area was being featured in our upcoming novel; so excited they wrote a very nice article about our project.
Just another benefit to writing about the places you know.
Weapons of Mass Deception launches on May 15th. Pre-orders are available on Amazon now.
David Bruns is the creator of the sci-fi series The Dream Guild Chronicles, and one half of the Two Navy Guys and a Novel blog series about co-writing the military thriller, Weapons of Mass Deception, coming in May 2015.