Thomas Kaminski

Hello out there, all you crazy, mad, and exquisitely interesting minds! My name is Thomas (Tommy) Kaminski, and I'm what folks around the mental ward call an "author" of urban fantasy. I like writing sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure stories that take place right here in our own modern times, give or take a few decades. No Medieval Middle Earth epic journeys or distant future space conquests for me (though you can probably find a "Star Trek" reference in just about everything I write). I've been writing since my junior year of high school, where it started as just a secret hobby from which I expected nothing more than a dry, withered beansprout to bloom. Today, though, writing is a great and proud passion of mine, which I hope someday will bring joy and inspiration to millions of others just like me. (Or even those who are completely different.) My greatest inspirations for writing are other writers and--oddly enough--cartoons. In fact, my first ever book was heavily and directly inspired by both of these things in concert. It's about a man who loves cartoons to an almost unhealthy degree, to the point where one day he loses his mind and starts to think that he's living in a cartoon himself. The plot was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," my writing style was inspired by Douglas Adams and his "Hitchhiker's Guide" series, and the parodied likenesses of many famous cartoon characters make appearances throughout. Looking back, it's not my favorite book that I've written--by no means--but by gosh o'golly gee am I glad that I wrote it, for it led me to the (non-living) thing that I now love most in the world, and I can't even imagine my world without writing.