T.D. Severin - Award-Winning Medical Thriller Author

Being a writer is a lonely existence, especially as you release your work out into the world . . . then wait to hear a response. Then, from out of nowhere, a review like this comes in -- and the sun shines again. Thanks to Independent Book Review "Deadly Vision is a tech-savvy political thriller that explores the backstabbing corruption of electoral campaigns, the weight of childhood trauma, and the cost of following dreams that aim too high. There are a lot of appealing elements to Deadly Vision. The political machinations going on in the background of Taylor’s life, his carefully buried past that surfaces bit by bit, and the relationships he has with those closest to him. The most fascinating aspect has got to be the Virtual Heart Project. A lot of media portrays virtual reality, but it’s usually shown as entertainment. Here, virtual reality is imagined through the lens of something vital and lifesaving. The project that Taylor and his team work on aims to repair heart damage ...

 Besides the day job as a surgeon and an aspiring novelist, I also own a record label, Ripple Music -- which for 15 years has become one of the world's leading record labels for what's called heavy psychedelic rock.   With a large fanbase, I was wondering how I could integrate the novel with the record label, and came up with the idea of a "reading soundtrack."  Not music to play as you read (don't know about you, but I can't do that.  I like silence when I read.) But rather an album of the book, where each song, put together, line up to tell the story in music, mood, feeling, or lyric, of Deadly Vision.  I went to some of our biggest artists, like Wino (of The Obsessed), Dave Angstrom (of Hermano),  Borracho, Gary Arce (of Yawning Man) and many others, and gave them a brief paragraph of the book.  They went to work and turned in an amazing album of mood and texture that accompanies and fleshes out the book.  Speaking of the band, Borracho....