Tom Skore has enjoyed a creative life as a writer, actor, stage director, and professor. He has worked in regional theaters such as the Seattle Repertory and Goodman Theater and had featured roles in major films. He directed an original play for bestselling author Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), acted in an original play for Tony Award winning director Daniel Sullivan, and acted with Academy Award winner Nicholas Cage. He has written a book, The Resurrection Encounter, and twelve screenplays, including one he was commissioned to write for the world class Argentine pianist, Ana Maria Trenchi de Bottazzi. As an educator he has taught at seven universities, most recently the University of Alaska Anchorage where he also chaired the program for 13 of 25 years. Tom has lived in thirteen states, is an avid reader of anything scientific, a pilot and experimental aircraft builder, and a veteran. After 32 years in Alaska, Tom now writes from his home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Tranquility Moon is a contemporary science fiction story about the day that violence died. The factors that contributed to my writing it are many, not the least of which were the shootings at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Valentine’s Day 2018. Add to that a life marked by constantly changing perspectives. Raised quasi-Christian, my family attended a church where only Polish was spoken, which I didn’t. Later, I attended a high school where nearly everyone was Jewish: I wasn’t. While there I played music, participated in sports, and was very involved with theater, which eventually became my vocation, one which forces the participant to view the world through many different lenses. I grew up in a huge city (Chicago), and lived in many more (including NYC, Houston, Seattle, St. Louis, Austin, and others) across the entire country.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I have lived in the Last Frontier, aka Alaska, longer than anywhere else in my life. I have worked with all kinds of people; in factories, in the military, as a college professor, as an actor and director. My soulmate, who died of breast cancer at 42 after a 7-year battle, was Cajun, and the person who is the love of my life today is Alaska Native (Aleut). For well over half a century now I have had the privilege of being a licensed pilot, which has provided me with views of the earth from above, from coast to coast, and from north-to-south, which is absolutely the best way to see this great country. Add to all this a fantastic and eye-opening education. Where has all this left me? As a kind of alien observer, a spiritual person with no religious preference, and with the ability to converse with just about anyone on anything. This is the platform from which I write, along with the belief that in a precarious world, outdated assumptions must be challenged.