Tom Vick Guide

Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you’re reading something that inspires love in your life. Maybe a good book is all we need this morning and a slice of heaven and sip of decadence and…I’ll let you finish the rest.

Welcome to my writing world! My name is Thomas Vick, a debut author currently seeking representation for my Urban Romantasy Novel, An Unveiling of Ice and Sift.

Elves come to the Human District to feel mortal.
Some of them don’t make it back.

When a designer drug called Deathbringer strips elves of their immortality, highborn thrill-seekers flood the city below, chasing pain, pleasure, and consequences they’ve never had to face. Soon, their bodies start turning up in the streets.

Emery Nyrawnia knows exactly why.

A former Watch operative and once an ice-wielding immortal, Emery helped test the drug before disappearing into the shadows. Now she runs covert operations against corrupt elvish elites—until the murders drag her back into a war she thought she’d left behind.

To finish the fight, Emery makes the one choice no immortal should: she gives up her magic, her immortality, and the mental armor that kept her alive.

Mortal. Hunted. Exposed.

As power structures collapse and class violence ignites, Emery must decide whether breaking an unjust system is worth becoming collateral damage.

An Unveiling of Ice and Sift is a dark urban fantasy about addiction, power, and the cost of choosing humanity.

Men don’t need more lectures from thought leaders.
They need more stories.

Reading literally develops the network in our brain to read emotions in others and understand them.

But sadly, the publishing industry has made its gamble on books that paint us as the villain, as the 80’s action star, or the drunk deadbeat. When there’s few books showing us finding our compassion, wrestling with addiction and loneliness or fixing relationships instead of leaving them.

It only keeps the tale that sells selling until someone breaks though with a different message.

This is why I write, so that guys can find their inner family, their empathy, wrestle with their feelings not bad guys. Maybe if we had more stories about that we’d have less stories about gun violence. I’m also writing so that everyone can heal their inner family. Any story that doesn’t do that, I can find it in myself to write it.