Welcome to Tom’s World, a website covering my favorite interests—writing and watching movies.
For 17 years I worked as a teen services librarian in the Sno-Isle Libraries. While there I developed a special interest in fiction for teenagers. I began writing on this topic in 1998, and became a regular contributor of teen-related material to the Novelist Readers Advisory Service in 1999. In 2005 my nonfiction book, Teen Reading Connections, was published by Neal-Schuman. My interest in writing fiction led to the publication of my first novel for a teenage audience, Rudy Becker, Stargazer in 2011. A second novel for older teens, A Lullaby for Toby, was published in 2019. And I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, The Dreams We Bring is now available for sale from local independent bookstores and online booksellers. For more information on this book see page 2.
I also have a special interest in film stretching back to the 1980’s when Seattle was just beginning to be known as a place where people cared about the movies. Increasingly, over the last few years, this website became a place where I published my views on individual films, and the dwindling Seattle film community. For those of you interested in Seattle film history, check out my articles on the closing of Cinema Books (2015, updated in 2018) and my newest article,”Critical Condition,” about the demise of the the movie theater experience during the stay-at-home era.
Welcome to Tom’s World, a website covering my favorite interests—writing and watching movies.
For 17 years I worked as a teen services librarian in the Sno-Isle Libraries. While there I developed a special interest in fiction for teenagers. I began writing on this topic in 1998, and became a regular contributor of teen-related material to the Novelist Readers Advisory Service in 1999. In 2005 my nonfiction book, Teen Reading Connections, was published by Neal-Schuman. My interest in writing fiction led to the publication of my first novel for a teenage audience, Rudy Becker, Stargazer in 2011. A second novel for older teens, A Lullaby for Toby, was published in 2019. And I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, The Dreams We Bring is now available for sale from local independent bookstores and online booksellers. For more information on this book see page 2.
I also have a special interest in film stretching back to the 1980’s when Seattle was just beginning to be known as a place where people cared about the movies. Increasingly, over the last few years, this website became a place where I published my views on individual films, and the dwindling Seattle film community. For those of you interested in Seattle film history, check out my articles on the closing of Cinema Books (2015, updated in 2018) and my newest article,”Critical Condition,” about the demise of the the movie theater experience during the stay-at-home era.
Welcome to Tom’s World, a website covering my favorite interests—writing and watching movies.
For 17 years I worked as a teen services librarian in the Sno-Isle Libraries. While there I developed a special interest in fiction for teenagers. I began writing on this topic in 1998, and became a regular contributor of teen-related material to the Novelist Readers Advisory Service in 1999. In 2005 my nonfiction book, Teen Reading Connections, was published by Neal-Schuman. My interest in writing fiction led to the publication of my first novel for a teenage audience, Rudy Becker, Stargazer in 2011. A second novel for older teens, A Lullaby for Toby, was published in 2019. And I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, The Dreams We Bring is now available for sale from local independent bookstores and online booksellers. For more information on this book see page 2.
I also have a special interest in film stretching back to the 1980’s when Seattle was just beginning to be known as a place where people cared about the movies. Increasingly, over the last few years, this website became a place where I published my views on individual films, and the dwindling Seattle film community. For those of you interested in Seattle film history, check out my articles on the closing of Cinema Books (2015, updated in 2018) and my newest article,”Critical Condition,” about the demise of the the movie theater experience during the stay-at-home era. At the same time, I’m adding now some newer material on film, specifically my 2025 SIFF Notes covering films I saw and liked at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.
I hope visitor’s will find something they like or can use in my film articles, and commentary. If you do, please share this site with others.