Pump Up Your Book Chats with Thomas Block, author of ‘Captain’

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ABOUT THOMAS BLOCK

Thomas Block has written a number of aviation-oriented novels, many which have gone on to acquire best-seller status in numerous countries. His novel writing began with the publication of “Mayday” in 1979. That novel was rewritten with novelist Nelson DeMille in 1998 and remains on DeMille’s extensive backlist. “Mayday” became a CBS Movie of the Week in October, 2005.
Several of the other novels by Block include “Orbit” (a top bestseller in Germany, among other nations), “Airship Nine”, “Forced Landing” (also done as a radio serialization drama in Japan), “Skyfall”, “Open Skies” and his latest novel, “Captain”. Thomas Block is still writing both fiction and non-fiction, and has edited and updated his earlier novels into ebooks in all the major formats and also into handsome full-sized (6″ by 9″ Trade Paperback) printed versions.

Block’s magazine writing began in 1968 and over the next five decades his work has appeared in numerous publications. He worked 20 years at FLYING Magazine as Contributing Editor, and as Contributing Editor to Plane & Pilot Magazine for 11 years. Block became Editor-at-Large for Piper Flyer Magazine and Cessna Flyer Magazine in 2001. During his long career as an aviation writer he has written on a wide array of subjects that range from involvement with government officials to evaluation reports on most everything that flies.

An airline pilot for US Airways for over 36 years before his retirement in April, 2000, Captain Thomas Block has been a pilot since 1959. Since 2002, he has lived on a ranch in Florida with his wife Sharon where they board, compete and train horses.

His latest book is the suspense/thriller novel, Captain.

Visit his website at www.thomasblocknovels.com.

To purchase from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Thomas-Block/dp/1470158973/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347159324&sr=8-1&keywords=captain+by+thomas+block

To puchase a Kindle copy: http://www.amazon.com/Captain-ebook/dp/B007KQHK2I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332328330&sr=8-1

To purchase from Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/captain-thomas-block/1109625740?ean=2940014237529&itm=1&usri=thomas+block+captain

To purchase from Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/160858

Q: Can you tell us why you wrote your book?

I was an airline pilot and International captain of widebody jets (just like the major characters in Captain) for many years before my retirement a dozen years ago. I’ve also been a professional writer of novels (seven International bestsellers) and magazine articles for the past 50 years, so having a writing project on tap was part of my normal routine. For Captain (my latest and, frankly, the most intricate and ambitious novel I’ve written so far), I discovered a few years ago that in the back of my mind I had a new story; a story that needed to be told in a specific way, with emphasis on character and plot, motivation and timing. As always, it would be an aviation-theme action/adventure. To me, so many modern novels (and especially modern movies!) are hardly more than comic books with storylines that don’t hang completely together and with endless and brutish snapping from scene to scene as if they expected that the audience had an attention span that could only be measured in the smallest portions possible.

So I wrote Captain, a story with a beginning, middle and (what I wanted to become a very satisfying) ending. It is a story about what happens to the crew and passengers on a particular flight from Rome, Italy to New York when unthinkable things begin to happen to their airliner. It is full of characters that readers have told me that they really loved — and also loved to hate. It is an action/adventure tale with a backdrop of real emotions. It is a novel that slowly moves from scene to scene — but at a fast pace. Is that sort of mix possible? Look at the movies Casablanca and Dances With Wolves, or the novel Lonesome Dove. That’s what I was trying to do with Captain; a number of reviewers and general readers have told me that, to them, Captain is a powerhouse of emotions while it is simultaneously packed with a very high level of action, intrigue and adventure.

Q: Which part of the book was the hardest to write?

Every book brings its own challenges. Since I wanted Captain to be extremely accurate from a piloting/flying point of view, making certain that all the zillions of details that go into flight planning a Trans-Atlantic flight (especially one that had these many problems) were lining up just as they should. That stuff took LOTS of visits to the book’s details and my North Atlantic plotting charts.

Naturally, you run into stumbling moments during the creation of any novel, but what gets me through them is keeping my eye on the next target – which is often a scene that I’m really looking forward to getting into. In Captain, there were a number of little ‘scenes’ in my head that just had to occur, and whenever I was approaching one of them I was really buoyed up about getting to it and into it. Sometimes they were entire sections (such as when Lee and Tina were sitting down in the airliner’s cabin to talk), and other times it was just a quick line or a character impression (such as the Captain Jack moment toward the very end of the book). It’s those fun times that more than keeps you going and motivated to keep pressing on through other areas that haven’t quite formulated in your mind as yet.

Q: Does your book have an underlying message that readers should know about?

Captain does indeed have ‘messages’ in it, which are really the core themes that are the emotional and/or psychological connections that the characters have to each other and to the storyline. When you don’t have those type of ‘threads’ throughout a novel, what you wind up with is senseless action cobbled together by meaningless plot. Let me quote the jacket copy to sum it up: “Captain is about the individual and collective struggles of each of these men and women as they attempt to deal with and ultimately fight against the odds and circumstances that are stacked against them.”

Q: Besides books, what else do you write? Do you write for publications?

I began my professional writing career as a magazine writer, mostly for aviation magazines. I spent over 20 years as Contributing Editor of FLYING Magazine (it was the world’s largest circulation aviation magazine in those days), and also many years at Plane & Pilot Magazine. I also wrote freelance articles for many other publications, and have been closely associated with Cessna Flyer and Piper Flyer Magazines for the past dozen years or so, where I am still ‘Editor At Large’.

Q: Do you have a writing tip you’d like to share?

Write it your way. That’s no guarantee that you’ll create a real likeable product by going that direction, but if you try to force a style/direction that isn’t naturally yours, that’s a guarantee that you’ll fail.

Q: Would you like to tell us about your home life? Where you live? Family? Pets?

My wife Sharon has been a horse-involved person her entire life, and she got me involved soon after I retired from airline flying – I rode my first horse when I was 56 years old, so I was definitely an older guy starting something totally new!

You can see more about all of this at our two websites: www.ThomasBlockNovels.com and www.FlyingB-Ranch.com. The two websites are directly connected, so you can simply slide from one to the other by hitting the link button between them. We’ve got photos, videos and lots of information on the two sites that covers everything in our lives – novels, airplanes, horses and the ranch, our horse-motel operation (including our honored periodic guests, the Budweiser Clydesdale operation and the Wells-Fargo Stagecoach team), new and old photos, and even our two house cats Furr and Fuss.

Q: What do you do to get away from it all?

I’ve found that I’ve really enjoyed working with horses on our Florida ranch a great deal, and then got myself involved in Cowboy Mounted Shooting (a competitive sport where we shoot at balloons from horseback with old-west style guns). With Mounted Shooting, I’ve found something really neat to do with my horse that more than fills my free time.

The Cowboy Shooting organization (CMSA) has recently featured Captain in their magazine with a big spread and a rave review: “…A diversified and very realistic cast of complex characters are thrown into the chaos…one heck of a gripping saga…I found the story to be fascinating, I couldn’t put it down…” are some of the quotes from that Mounted Shooting magazine’s review.

Q: What was the first thing you did as far as promoting your book?

Being a relatively well known aviation writer, I first went to various aviation-based media (online and print) and had pretty good success getting reviews and exposure. For example, Airways Magazine said “I was truly moved by Captain Block’s insight within the story. While this novel is quite entertaining on the surface as a thriller, it also runs deep with realistic emotion.”

Pacific Flyer said: “This book is guaranteed to grab you from page one and hold on until your dinner is cold… you’ll tremendously enjoy the book as an action packed thriller with lots of side stories going on …if a book can really be a “page turner,” this one is.”
The Air Line Pilot Journal said: “a suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat account of one harrowing day on Flight 3. The plot wends from the cockpit to the traveling passengers to the airport to the corporate boardroom, with all the stories meshing to give the reader a truly captivating story.”

But I don’t want to give the impression that Captain is a novel designed just for airplane people, because nothing could be further from the truth. Here are some media/reader quotes (you can locate the full reviews and see lots more at our website www.ThomasBlockNovels.com):

“I think men & women will love this book. If you love high drama and always wonder what goes on inside an airline jet that gets hijacked or has any kind of problem, well, here is about as good as it gets… Captain is a real sit-on-pins-and-needles type of book that you will not want to put down once you start reading!”

“The characters are really great…I loved the banter. I definitely suggest checking Captain out. It has its own charm about it, and the characters are just hilarious. Not in a hokey, trying-too-hard way. In a realistic way…This is one of those rare gems they speak about so often. It promises to be a unique read, a deep and complex adventure through adverse situations.”

“This is a book that you will have a hard time putting down. It’s many plots a will keep you guessing from page one. It has something for everyone – action, romance, intrigue. This is a book that leaves you satisfied at the end. Read it and be entertained to the last page. Enjoy!!!!”

Q: Are you familiar with the social networks and do you actively participate?

We are quite active at our Facebooks sites. There are two Facebook pages for the novels, and both of them contain lots of information, reviews, and direct links to other places such as our videos and websites. The two sites are www.Facebook.com/Captain.by.Thomas.Block and www.Facebook.com/ThomasBlockNovels.

Q: Your book has just been awarded a Pulitzer. Who would you thank?

No single novel can be all things to all people, so the real awards that are the most meaningful are not the group and organizational displays but rather the individual comments from specific readers that found themselves right on the wavelength that you’ve been transmitting on. That’s where the real battle with words and ideas is best fought. Here are a few of the direct messages that I’ve gotten about Captain that have meant a great deal to me:

“The Viktor Frankl quote stirred my soul.”
“Read it in 3 sittings and LOVED it!”
“I’m a B767 Captain and was in Rome when I started reading!! WOW! You had me…Well done!!!”
“An excellent job! If I had to give Captain a rating between 1 and 10, to be perfectly honest, I would give it a 13+.”
“The worst thing about this book is that I am finished. Captain is one of the best thrillers I have read in a long time. I found myself slowing down just so the story would last. It is a roller coaster ride way above the clouds.”
“If you haven’t bought Captain, you’re missing out. Very exciting and can’t be put down.”

Q: Thank you so much for this interview, Thomas Block. Do you have any final words?

Enjoy the story! Captain was fun to write, and many who have read the novel have said that it was an engaging and exciting ride for them, too. Take the Reader Survey, and go to our website where you can email your thoughts directly to me on what you’ve read. We’re all in this to have a good time; let me know if you did!

ABOUT CAPTAIN

Thomas Block has created ‘Captain’ – his most ambitious, intricate and action-packed aviation tale yet . It is a chilling and all-too-real story about a routine Trans-Atlantic airline flight that suddenly turns absolutely insane. In the doomed airliner’s cockpit, inside the passenger cabin and on the ground, a complex array of characters have been propelled at jet speed into a sudden and frantic race for survival.

‘Captain’ is about the individual and collective struggles of each of these men and women as they attempt to deal with and ultimately fight against the odds and circumstances that are stacked against them. ‘Captain’is a novel that pits man against man while also pitting man against machine. It is a story about the need for human judgments, hard-learned experiences, gut feelings and unbridled perseverance in an effort to rise up against a world where the strict adherence to written rules, regulations and procedures have been accepted as the norm.
‘Captain’ is about the way real airline pilots think, feel and react, especially after those giant airliners that they’ve strapped themselves to have suddenly turned vicious and unpredictable.

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