Thomas Ray Crowel

I am a homebred Hoosier, known for our sense of humor, hospitality, humbleness...and always ready to give a helping hand. I quit high school to serve my country, but later in life earned my B.A. from Purdue in Psychology and my M.A.L.S. from Valparaiso University with a concentration in Theology.

If you really want to know me, all you need do is invest .99 cents and read SIMPLE SELLING on Kindle. It is my first commercial book which I wrote so my readers could find success. I liken it to the sunny side of life. My second book, DIRTY LITTLE TRICKS, exposes people's dark sides.

My debut novel, SCATTERED HARVEST, is a story set in rural Indiana in the early 1900's, with its main character destined for a place called Long Pointe -an asylum for the insane. It's truly about men and women at their best and worst.

My second novel, THE PASSERBY, was inspired when an angel whispered in my ear and I was able to solve a cold case murder - one in which the life of an 11-year-old girl was taken just two weeks before Christmas in 1986.

CRY UNCLE, my latest novel, is an award winning story as told by a soldier boy in the Civil War during the years of 1864/65.

As the saying goes: Life is Good. As such, I have been very fortunate, as well as very blessed as an entrepreneur, therefore I am able to contribute all my proceeds from my bestseller, THE PASSERBY, to the Shriner's Hospital for Children in Chicago, as well as other charitable causes.