About JES Tomson

My current roommates are a diminutive female, chocolate point

Siamese named Sara.   Her companion is a flame point named Charli.  I love animals of all kinds.  Yes, lions and tigers and bears, oh my!  I’m sure there is a Bassett Hound out there somewhere that is supposed to come live with me.

For a long time, everything I wrote was related to teaching and learning.  I retired from being an educator and moved back into the real world where children (and adults) learn from everything around them without any lesson plans.

Science fiction/fantasy fired my imagination at a young age and became a life-long passion.  DNA and “genetically modified” have become a part of our everyday vocabulary in America.  The possibilities stirred my imagination way back when we hadn’t gotten much beyond knowing there were dominant and recessive genes, humans had 46 chromosomes, and the structure of DNA was just beginning to be unraveled.

There were always stories percolating in my head but there was never time to write them down. University, work, and family demanded all my attention for many years. Early retirement provided time and some of those ideas finally coalesced into a future world and a first contact that is both terrifying and inspiring. The story didn’t just get written; it turned into a trilogy.  Space, humans, animals, and aliens continue to live their stories in my head, all waiting to be told.  So many kinds of aliens.

I’m a Floridian who has been temporarily living and writing in North Carolina for the past fifteen years.  I’m almost ready to go home.  Some stories need the sound of ocean waves and the smell of salt air to really come alive.