Tom
Lewis was born in Invercargill, the first of eight children. Tom has
two brothers, and a sister who died in infancy. Tom's father died in
an accident in 1940 and the family moved to the eastern Southland town
of Mataura. Tom's mother remarried towards the end of WWII and four
more children followed; all girls. Whilst living in Mataura, Tom joined
the New Zealand Post Office as a postman and telegraph delivery boy
in 1953, and resigned two years later but in 1956 he was drawn back
to the Post Office and restarted his career.
This
eventually led to him being transferred to several offices throughout
the country. His transfers eventually saw him posted, in the early sixties,
to the Accounts Branch of the Director General's Office in Wellington,
and he has remained in the Wellington district ever since. A career,
mainly in Finance and Human Resources followed and he worked ten years
for Telecom Corporation before retiring in 1997.
It
was while working in the Accounts Branch he met the woman who was to
become his wife. Tom and Marie married in 1967, and have two adult children,
Greg and Tracey. Just prior to retirement, Tom purchased a computer
and started what had been a life's ambition, to write a novel. The story,
an international crime thriller, Eye of the Kea, was published electronically
by Zeus Publications Australia in 2000 and was released in paperback
by Horizon Press in May 2002 and made number seven in the NZ Best Sellers
Top 10.
His
second novel Black Friday was released by Zeus Publications in Australia
in October 2004.
Tom
is at present busy on his third novel, Twisted Vengeance. He has had
a lifelong interest in books and writing and has always enjoyed reading.
Ever since he can remember, he has read books on just about every subject,
his favourites being crime fiction, humour, war stories and westerns.
Tom
was the Books Editor for the New Zealand Writers Website for two years
then he resigned to work on his novels. He has written many book reviews
that have been published in the Website newsletter and these have been
well received by publishers in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain.
If
you would like to have Tom as a speaker for an event please send an
email to bookings@tomlewis.co.nz
