The Eye of Rudra

Author Bio: Tom Sturm is a writer and editor who currently works as the lead public affairs specialist for Hurricane Sandy Recovery, at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Hadley, Mass. Previously, he was a writer and editor for The Valley Advocate newspaper and Preview Massachusetts magazine in Northampton, Mass. He is the author of a young adult novel, Samantha Smart: Time Traveler; a humorous, illustrated coffee table book, Couch Surfin' U.S.A., and an adult spy fiction novel The Eye of Rudra. Tom is also the author of three feature-length screenplays, Human, The Line and Phil, two TV pilots, D.O.M.E. and Antibody, a spec script for an episode of The Simpsons (AThe Moleman Cometh@), a number of strip cartoons under the title Prez 4 A Week, numerous freelance articles for several local, regional and national publications and approximately 200 original songs. He plays several musical instruments, has starred in a rock opera called Skypaint (http://www.skypaintmusic.com/index_flash.html) and has a cat named Squatch, whom he found at the age of five weeks late at night on the yellow lines of a rural Pennsylvania highway. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts with his family and is working on a vapid, banal dance-pop song titled “Status Update.”