Tom M. Paolangeli was born in 1955 in Ithaca NY, and despite occasional forays into the real world, keeps getting sucked back there. From 2001 to 2010 he wrote an award winning column for the Ithaca Times, "Tom's Two Cents." He's raced and wrecked cars, played bass in rock and roll bands, and once owned a 1952 Greyhound bus. To pay the bills he has, among other things, sold Real Estate, marketed Industrial Gas Turbine pumps, edited bird sounds, and served as a bureaucrat in various government agencies. Unlike Kafka, this last role hasn't caused him to think about waking up as a cockroach. At least not yet...

In the summer of 2012 he published a short eBook called "A Guy's Secret Guide to Fifty Shades of Grey" which became the #1 best seller on the Kindle Humor/Parody list. Tom is happily married and they love living in the country with lots of trees and critters.