Tom Jones

Tom retired in 2005 after 30

years with the State of California

where he worked as a legislative

director in the administrations of the

last five California governors.

He lives in Sacramento.

Working at the Ballpark is his first book. He currently is writing two new books Risky Living (to be released by Skyhorse Publishing in October, 2009) and That First Year (to be published in 2010).

See RISKY LIVING on YOUTUBE at:

  http://www.youtube.com/watchv=GXg38yEZGy8&feature=channel_page

Risky Living: People with Tough Jobs Who Won't Back Down is about 40 men and women who have jobs where they can be in physical danger, including interviews with an astronaut, Blue Angels pilot, tiger tamer, bull rider, boxer, crab fisherman, FBI agent, SWAT member, soldier, war correspondent, ironworker, oil well firefighter, Coast Guard rescue diver, correctional officer, cop, football player, hockey player, high-rise window washer, crop duster, timber cutter, hostage negotiator, NASCAR pit crew member, cab driver, stuntwoman, alligator trapper, U.S. federal marshal, auto repossessor, U.S. embassy employee, bounty hunter, skydiving instructor, drag racer, coal miner, and other fascinating people who have fascinating and risky occupations.

That First Year shares candid and compelling face-to-face interviews with people whose lives changed drastically within the first year after a significant unexpected event. In this new book, readers will meet a high school star athlete who lost both legs after an ambush in Iraq; a couple who won the lottery; a man who received a life prison sentence for a crime he insists he did not commit; a first-year teacher; a woman who is treated differently than she expected after undergoing major cosmetic surgery; a mother whose child was kidnapped; a young family that lost everything in an arson-set fire; and, true stories from 40 other people who share their deeply personal stories about how they adjusted to major life changes, not always of their own making.