For those of you that didn’t tune in on Monday to my blogtalk radios show The G-ZONE, shame on you. Okay, maybe you had something to do, but you can at least listen to it on the archive, who knows maybe you will find another author you find interesting. The reason I am pointing this out is this: Tom gave me a new insight into how and why he writes. I found his answers to my questions compelling as well as very telling and it helped me to appreciate his hard work even more. Here is the link to the blogtalk:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop

This will hook you up to any and all of the interviews I have been fortunate enough to do since the very first one. I have found as a reader and a fan that listening to the authors describe their method and reasoning has heightened my reading experience and made it better, as I can hear their voice telling me what their motivations were when they wrote their work. Try it, find an author you know, listen in for a bit and tell me if what I say isn’t true. Then listen to someone whose work you haven’t read and tell me if the passion for their work and the way they described it compelled you to put them on your –to read- list or to download their work ASAP. I think you will find Tom Sumner, with his passion and love for what he does infectious.  Further I suggest you drop the $.99 on the guy and enjoy smiling and laughing a bit at his work. Give him a try, laughter is right around the corner.  Here is a synopsis on his work and a short bio. Laurie Bowler’s Across the City Chapter Three - Carnage is up next.

“Humorist Tom Sumner has put together a collection of his best essays and thoughts that are sure to make you laugh, smile, and look at life just a little bit differently, all in a good way. Download Tom’s take on everyday life and try to see things through his eyes, skewed and wacky though it may seem, it will put a smile on your face.

Tom Sumner was born and raised in Flint. He was Executive Director for the Center City Association of Greater Flint, The Flint Children’s Museum and New Leash on Life in Los Angeles.

Tom traveled the Midwest in the 70’s and early 80’s as a full-time musician playing drums in small concert venues for recording artists “The Diamonds.” “The Drifters.” “Freddy (Boom-Boom) Cannon,” “Del Shannon,” and many others.

Tom took to the air in the 1990’s as a classical music host at Flint’s public radio station WFBE, and as media spokesperson in TV PSA’s for mid-Michigan Crimestoppers. He was a regular on-air host during pledge drives for Flint’s public television station WFUM TV28.

Sumner returned to Michigan in 2007 and became a regular member of Bill Toll’s Flint-based blues band, “Cidy Zoo.” He currently hosts a morning show at Kettering University’s student run radio station WKUF LP 94.3 FM. The show can be heard in Flint or streamed live on the World Wide Web at wkuf.fm from 6-9am EST.

He has recently appeared as an actor and musician in several theater productions with Flint’s semi-professional troupe Vertigo Theatrics.

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