Marketing and Publishing Group member, Tom Rizzo, will be
the featured speaker at the Local Authors Hour on Thursday, September 11, 2014,
at 10:15am at Helen Hall Library in League City.
Tom is the author of Last
Stand At Bitter Creek, a historical
action-adventure novel, named Finalist for the 2013 Western Fictioneers
Peacemaker Award, Best Western First Novel. He also writes short stories,
as well as nonfiction. His book, Heroes & Rogues, includes mini-profiles of several characters, bad
and good, who roamed the American frontier.
Tom began his career as a teenager, doing odd jobs at a
small radio station in Ohio, and soon was promoted to disc jockey. He also
wrote news, sports, music intros, obituaries, commercials, and more. He later
wrote news for radio and television, spent several years with the Associated
Press, and worked as a freelance writer for magazines and advertising, as well
as doing promotional writing for businesses.
Along the way, he met a colorful cast of characters who
helped inspire his story-writing, including the one for his first novel. He is
now working on his second novel, The Deadly
Gray Dawn.
Please join us for this entertaining program by talented
local author, Tom Rizzo.
