Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Stay tuned for upcoming appearances and events!

Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library Book Club Fair, Pinecrest Public Library, Pinecrest Gardens, FL (April 11, 2026)

Bouchercon 2026, Calgary, AB (October 21-25, 2026)

RECENT EVENTS

2026 UCF Faculty Authors’ Celebration, Orlando, FL (February 17, 2026).

Award certificate, books, and rubber duck

UCF Women’s Club Daytime Bookworms, book club author talk, Orlando, FL (February 2, 2026)

Thrillerfest, New York, NY (June 19-21, 2025)

Tom in front of Thrillerfest banner — Hello Thrillerfest!

Panelists from Thrillerfest panel — With my fellow panelists

Tom with USA Today bestseller Jon Lindstrom — USA Today bestseller Jon Lindstrom

Tom with New York Times bestselling thriller superstar (and fellow Floridian) Lisa Unger — NYT bestselling thriller superstar (and fellow Floridian) Lisa Unger

Tom with Award-winning author Chris Mullen — Award-winning author Chris Mullen

SleuthFest, St. Petersburg, FL (May 11-14, 2025)

Tom on a SleuthFest panel — Panels with other authors

Florida Book Awards ceremony, Tallahassee, FL (April 3, 2025)

Tom holding Diamond Cut at the Florida Book Awards

Brevard Authors Society Authors Forum, Catherine Schweinsberg Rood Central Library, Cocoa, FL (October 26, 2024)

Speaker Series at The Landings independent living facility, Orlando, FL (September 25, 2024)

Tom with residents at the Landings independent living facility.

Bouchercon 2024, Nashville, TN (August 28, 2024 – September 1, 2024)

Diamond Cut book on a table with bookmarks and a coffee cup — Ready to meet readers in Speed Dating

Tom with Bookstagrammer Teresa Brock, @fullybookedinkentucky — Ready to meet readers in Speed Dating

Diamond Cut Book Launch (July 2024)

Interview at Literary Gold (July 2024)

Guest Post at The Mystery of Writing (July 2024)

Interview at Hott Books (July 2024)

Orlando Book Festival (May 2024)

SleuthFest (July 2023)

SleuthFest (July 2022)

At the book signing table alongside the legendary Jeffery Deaver

Invited Panelist: “So You Majored in Creative Writing: Now What?” The Goran Reading Series at the University of Miami (April 21, 2011).

Invited speaker at the University of Miami: undergraduate screenwriting class and a reception honoring the 50^th teaching anniversary of Creative Writing Professor Lester Goran (2011).

Moderator: UCF Book Festival at the Morgridge International Reading Center: Even Saints Have Dark Nights: The Mysteries of the Anti-Hero, Orlando, FL (April 17, 2010)

Keynote talk for the launch of Mangrove, a new undergraduate literary journal at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (March 31, 2009)

Florida Heritage Book Festival, Putting the Mystery in Your Mystery and Head Games: Finding Your Niche in the Publishing World, St. Augustine, FL (September 11-12, 2009)

The Florida Heritage Book Festival Poster

Florida Writers’ Book Fair—a program during Origins ’09: A Celebration of the Birth & Life of Beginnings, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (March 21, 2009)

Miami Book Fair—Florida Book Award Gold Medal Winners (November 12-16, 2008)

Tom at podium discussing Head Games at the Miami Book Fair

Bouchercon Mystery Conference: It’s Only Make Believe (Moderator) and Whistle While You Work (Panel Participant): Baltimore, MD (October 9 & 10, 2008)

The grave of Edgar Allen Poe outside the Shamus Awards dinner venue

Florida Book Awards, Tallahassee, FL (2008)

Head Games at the Florida Book Awards. — The Florida Book Awards winners ceremony in 2008. That is the shadow of former Florida Governor Charlie Crist looking on mysteriously over the Head Games introduction…