Tom Williams

Tom Williams is an author columnist and feature article writer for a series of Scripps newspapers in Southwest Florida. After having published hundreds of human interest, and culinary columns, Tom’s well-rounded writing career includes articles in Paradise Magazine, the Naples Daily News and The Marco Island Eagle. Williams writing has been published in Amsco school publications, and Frontier Airlines in-flight magazine “The Wild Blue Yonder.”

“Surrounded by Thunder—The Story of Darrell Loan and the Rocketmen” is Williams’ third book: a non-fictional historical narrative about the golden age of the American space program. This book reads like an adventure novel, but the characters, the timeline, and all the incredible achievements of the early days of space exploration are true.

With uncountable shipwrecks lost on the ocean floor, Williams’ second book “Lost and Found” explores the high-tech possibilities that a satellite orbiting from above the earth could detect a super conductor such as gold and potentially find all the lost shipwrecks around the globe that have a wavelength signature for the incredibly precious metal.

Tom’s first novel Flight of the Valkrye is the prequel for Lost and Found and is an epic Second World War adventure reaching into the wilds of the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe where an amazing aircraft technology is discovered that requires no fossil fuels. This technology proves to be a formula for the “George Jetson” car of the future, and a global dominating success that could only be described as a checkmate move for any nation who can race to discover a lost technology.

In August 2013, Tom will be celebrating 29 years as a Master Merchant Marine Officer licensed by the United States Coast Guard. He is a well-traveled and veteran scuba diver specializing in shipwreck diving with a keen interest in deep-sea archeology. After decades of real life discovery above and under the water, Tom is uniquely enabled to create cause and effect scenarios where the written words paint the pictures.

Tom Williams lives on Marco Island Florida with his wife Victoria and their three cats Angel, Atticus, and Scout.