T Patrick Phelps

Biography

T Patrick Phelps has been writing professionally for over two decades. He is the Sales Career Expert for About.com and has clients in the Business and Personal Development industries around the world.

Phelps's passion, however, is in writing fiction. He is the author of "the Derek Cole Suspense Thriller" series of novels, the first of which, "Heartless," was published in both ebook and paperback format in September of 2015.

The next book in the Derek Cole series, "Those of the Margin," will be released in November 2015.

Phelps lives with his wife, two kids and two dogs in Upstate New York.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
I started writing fiction when I was around 10 years old. My first work was pretty horrible but it started me on my path.
What's the story behind your latest book?
Those of the Margin is the second book in the Derek Cole Suspense Thriller series. The idea came to me after reading a short article about an experiment done in 1972 called the "Phillip Experiment." This experiment was organized by a group of psychologists who created a fictional character named Phillip. They came up with an entire life for Phillip. They told people in their test group that Phillip had died and asked them to try to contact Phillip.

The amazing thing is that the test subjects believe they actually made contact with the fictional spirit of Phillip
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Books

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