The writer, Tom Sanders grew up in the Mississippi Delta to become a rolling stone and a journalist. The profession allowed him the opportunity to travel a considerable amount of the planet and live in such diverse places as Miami, Guam, London, New York and Tokyo. A gonzo journalist, his forte was and is the offbeat and unusual.

He interrupted his career to realize a mid-life fantasy by dropping out and buying a historic and dilapidated old hotel on a remote Florida barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. The experience provided him with plenty of colorful characters and background for his writing endeavors. It was in the Neptune Bar at the Island Hotel in Cedar Key that Tom met kindred spirits, Jeff Dwyer and Elizabeth O’Grady, and began a friendship that has evolved into a professional writer-agent relationship.

Short stories from his Southern Exposure collection have appeared on the internet in such e-zine magazines as the beat generation Jack magazine and the New Zealand Southern Ocean Review. His fiction was a short story contest winner on the Hemingway Resource Center, and he has since become a regular contributor http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm. He is a Hemingway scholar of sorts and is rather an expert on the esoteric subject of Hemingway’s “Gott Mit Uns” Nazi belt buckle.

He lives and writes now in Frankfurt, Germany, where he is houseboy for his Yorkshire wife, Alison when he is not hanging out with his friend, The Real Kramer in Manhattan. He’s working on a novel about his time as an innkeeper at the Island Hotel in Cedar Key, Florida.

Tom’s basset hound, Barnaby writes a column for the Sanders’ website “Paradise Unlimited,” http://www.tksanders.com/ Barnaby and Tom hopes you will accept their invitation to visit.