Tom Swyers

Award-winning author Tom Swyers first had an audience on the edge of their seat (and the girls giggling) when his play, "The Great Train Robbery," made its debut in the seventh grade.

After high school, he worked his way through some of the best colleges in the country. Employed in a variety of jobs ranging from a late-night convenience store clerk to a fine jewelry salesperson, Tom eventually graduated from college and then worked his way through law school in the caverns of Wall Street.

Since then, he's been a lawyer for much of his career. He is also a former judge. Tom has studied at the New York State Summer Writer's Institute at Skidmore College.

Along the way, he married his high school sweetheart and raised a family.

When he isn't writing or reading, Tom is usually running (literally) away from trouble on the back roads of Upstate, New York where he lives with his family and two cats (really two dogs working undercover).

"Saving Babe Ruth" is a standalone novel and the prequel in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thrillers Series. These are some of the awards its received:

* Gold Winner, "Best First Book: Fiction," 2015 Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Book Awards.

* Silver Winner, "Best Popular Fiction," 2015 Independent Book Publisher Association's Benjamin Franklin Book Awards.

* Reader Views, "Best Regional Fiction 2014/2015: Northeast."

* Finalist, "Best New Fiction," 2014 USA Best Book Awards.

The first standalone novel in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thrillers Series is "The Killdeer Connection." It was selected as a winner in an Amazon international writing competition.

The next standalone novel in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series is "Caged to Kill." Released in 2019, it helped to free one man from solitary confinement after 33 years and it helped to change criminal justice laws in New York State.

Supported by an international human rights organization, Tom is set to release a new standalone novel in March, 2022 entitled "The Last Cabin Girl."