Who is the legendary "Daddy Tom"? He's a writer/designer extraordinaire, a talent agent, a TV producer and scriptwriter, investigator of the paranormal, Wolfman, and - of course - a 'father figure'. And he's actually very modest!!

BIRTH DATE: March 12th (Pisces)
BIRTHPLACE: Malden, Massachusetts
FOREBEARS: Irish and Scottish
RELIGION: Christian/New Age/Pagan/Mystical

• Had a very warped childhood, which made me the man I am today. Wanna see my baby pictures? Or how about my family tree? 

• Divorced, with three grown children: Tom, Lisa, and Dawn. Tom "Jr." was a former Firing Systems/Radar instructor for the U.S. Navy, and is married and living in California; Lisa resides in Medford MA and is employed as a data entry operator; and Dawn lives in Webster MA, is employed as a manager at a fast food outlet, and is the mother of two boys, Jared and Jacob, and a daughter, Chloe.

• Has always lived with furry friends, originally comprising two wolf hybrids and three cats, now sadly reduced to only one cat. See the zoo, past and present. 

• Jack-of-all-trades Writer, with a sordid past variously spent as a marketing director, technical writer, marketing communications writer, and instructor at such firms as Endoscopic Applications, Novilit, Tradeline.com (formerly Dow Jones IDD Information Systems), BMC Software, Honeywell EDP Division, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Analog Devices, Platinum Technologies, GN Nettest, VMark Software, Telefile Computer Corporation, Carleton Corporation, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Mohawk Data Sciences. 
  
  Hey, check out my resume!

• Founder and President 
  T.E.P. (Tom Elliott Productions), a talent and casting agency representing over 100 unique acts and hundreds of actors, with a roster you gotta see to believe!

• Freelance Writer 
  FATE, VideoMaker, Entrepreneur, Medical Electronics, Income Opportunities, Telemarketing, and certain "adult" magazines that shall remain nameless.
  
  Also author of Clowns, Clients & Chaos: How to Start a Hometown Talent Agency, soon to be reissued by iUniverse Press. 

• Creator and Producer 
  Four TV/cablevision series: Personal Perspectives and SexStyles on Continental Cable, and The Jane Harmon Show and Boston Showcase on Channel 68.

• Scriptwriter and Talent Scout 
  From Beyond, a nationally syndicated television series hosted by Joey Travolta, and Journey Beyond, a series of videotapes about the paranormal and supernatural.

• Founder and Director
  Boston Paranormal Investigators, a crack team of ghost hunters that has explored a number of mansions, cemeteries, and restaurants since March 2006 - see www.bostonparanormal.org. Also be on the lookout for "14 Degrees", a documentary on the paranormal. 

• Featured Guest on "Geraldo", "People Are Talking", and several other national and local programs.

• Book Review Columnist  (1985 - present)
  MENSA Bulletin, Mensa's national magazine with a readership of over 50,000 high-IQers, and the MENSA International Journal, which goes out to 60,000 additional Mensans all over the world..

• Prize-winning Photographer: Take a look at a few "Samples from My Portfolio" .

• Past Avocations: Lay Preacher and Youth Leader, Bookstore Proprietor, Assistant Sales Supervisor for Shaklee Products, Youth Counselor for the Herkimer County Narcotics Commission in upstate New York, Manager of the One Way! Coffeehouse in Herkimer NY, and Founder and Director of God's House, a halfway shelter for teens.

You can reach me via e-mail at daddytom01@earthlink.net

Today my favorite web page is The Wonderful World of Wolves (Wolf Haven International).