Tom E. lives in West Peoria with his family.  He began writing before he knew what words were.  The style he developed is called "mindless reading."  Tom E. writes to have his readers forget they are reading.  He claims to have derived it from a Taoist meditation technique about an empty cup.

Tom E. employs mindless reading by keeping the reader from thinking about literagurical terms.  Big phony words derail a sentence, interrupt the reader's narrative vision and should be used only in the mechanics of the story, not its text.  Unfortunately Tom E. liked to write about technology.  This made it more difficult to not use big words.  He did what he could, but no better than that.  

In 2006 Tom E. oraganized Shady House Publishing with Jack Madashu.  It quickly failed due to lack of management, staff, time, money, promotions, and anything else that a successful organization must execute to maintain their status.  By 2009, Shady House Publishing, LLC, ceased operations. 

Tom E. continues to refine his skills.  He keeps himself humble by not being very good at most things in life.  In his free time he likes to work on his holding corporation, swim, speak good, and try to get enough sleep.  He also enjoys playing the odds.

Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, James Liam spent his early years listening to the tall tales of Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor on cassette tape.  He played the tapes out, memorizing the patterns and rhetoric of two of the greatest comedic story tellers of all time.  J. Liam watched hours of television, as was the style of the children in the 90's.

Liam developed an eye our for new forms of media.  Ever since the VCR allow a young James to record the first episodes of "the Simpsons."   He wore those tapes out as well, studying the pattern in a story that could only exist in a cartoon, the Three Stooges, or maybe the pages of a story.  He soon understood how the story is told, and today works diligently on how to tell a story.