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Tahir Kashif
Toka-Ace #1 Tabula-Rasa
Assassinations, stealth, and infiltration. Unit Nine is a living weapon and the best at what he does. When he’s assigned to recover a missing bioweapon and hundreds of millions in stolen money, he never expects the mystery to put him face to face with his past mistakes or force him to make a pivotal choice.
Author website: TokaAce.com
Facebook: Tahir Kashif
Tell
your readers a little about yourself, where you grew up, where you live now,
where you went to school etc. Let them get to know the personal you.
I grew up in Milwaukee
Wisconsin. I've loved writing ever since I was a little boy. I got my start
writing comics in middle school.
What
inspired you to author this book?
The thing that
inspired me to write this book was the idea of detachment. What if someone with
superpowers was just plopped into the world and had to figure things out with
little to no context? How would that person turn out? What would their ethics
look like? Their political leanings, thus forth and so?
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Where
did you get the inspiration for your book’s cover?
The
front cover is a preview of a fight in the book and represents Troy's thoughts
weighing on him.
Who
has been the most significant influence on you personally and as a writer?
I
would say KA Applegate and her series Animorphs. I read it at a young age, and
it explored some pretty mature themes. I appreciated the fact that it didn't
talk down to a young audience and trusted them to handle some mature and dark
themes.
What
were your struggles or obstacles you had to overcome to get this book written?
I
self-published a couple of Toka-Ace books a few years ago before
completely reworking the series into what it is today.
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Tell
your readers about your book.
Toka-Ace
#1 is the first in the Toka-Ace series.
Unit Nine has to investigate the disappearance of a bio-weapon and a massive
amount of money. During the course of the mystery, he discovers a grander
conspiracy. He's confronted with the very idea of who he is and in the heat of
a deadly battle, forced to make a life-altering choice.
Who
is your target audience, and why?
My
target audience is teens and young adults. (But really anyone) I think that is
the age where people are trying to figure themselves out and I think the main
character is right there with them in doing so.
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What
do you consider your greatest success in life?
My
greatest success is my writing and other artistic expressions. Without making
this too long, during my lifetime I've seen people wait until retirement to do
something they've always wanted to do. That or they deny who they truly are.
The fact that I'm striving to do something I'm passionate about means that I
haven't let the rigors of life get me down. In my eyes that's success.
What
one unique thing sets you apart from other writers in your genre?
I'm
honestly not sure how to answer that. I only want to put my books out there.
I'm a simple man.
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