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Tom Tancin was born on January 24, 1984. He started writing when he was thirteen years old after being challenged by his seventh grade English Teacher. For English class that year, Tom and his friend Chris Wolf wrote a play about Where the Red Fern Grows and performed it for their class. Their teacher liked it and encouraged the young students to write a book.
Seventh grade was also the year that Tom's dad was diagnosed with the disease Sarcoidosis. He was given five years to live and was put on the list for a lung transplant. At thirteen years old, Tom had to hold the family together. Tom used his writing to escape to a world outside normal life.
Tom, and his friend Chris, began a journey to write the Time Warriors series. Originally entitled Teens in Time, it was a lot different than the published version today. Immaturity, pranks, and chaos ran amok in the original series. The authors changed it, but the original concept is still there. The series tells the adventures of a group of young people that fight to protect time travel. Throughout the series, the Time Warriors learn about friendship and how to fight for it. A terrific series for teenagers, the four books teach any reader about friendship and the struggles to keep it alive.
In 2000, Tom's dad successfully received a lung transplant. Tom and Chris continued with their writing, finishing the second book in the series. In 2002, Tom opened Time Warrior Entertainment, a website to showcase the Time Warriors series. That was also their graduation year. The authors were about to enter the real world and the series took a dark turn.
As Tom entered college, Time Warriors 3 was written. For the next 3 years, Time Warrior Entertainment was the home on the web for the series. Time Warriors 1 was sent to publishers. The rejections came back, and so did a letter that accepted the series. The letter said that the series would find it's place as books, movies, video games, comic books and more. The authors were thrilled but the contract was not what they had hoped. They tried again but the letters of rejection came back, throwing more misery on the authors. Any of the publishers that accepted the book could not give the authors what they wanted.
In 2005, Tom Tancin decided that if he was going to get published the way he wanted, he would have to do it himself. He also decided he would write books by himself, with Perfection being the first. In order to designate the change, and the step up in the publishing world, he closed Time Warrior Entertainment and opened Destifire Entertainment on June 17, 2005. Destifire Entertainment comes from the merging of ??destiny? and ??fire?. Tom said it is his destiny to be a published author and he has the fire to get it done.
Over the next few months, he prepared Time Warriors 1 for publication. On August 15, 2005, the first book by Tom Tancin and Chris Wolf was released by Destifire Entertainment through Lulu Press, Inc. Time Warriors: Part One was finally available to the public, 8 years after the journey began. Soon, Time Warriors: Part Two followed. On May 13, 2006, Tom Tancin made history again with the release of his first solo novel Perfection.
On June 15, 2007 history was made once again. Tom Tancin founded a new publishing company ??Destifire Books?. Tom Tancin took a step forward, away from self-publishing, and opened a company to publish his books. Destifire Books will publish other authors starting in late 2008 or early 2009. Destifire Books' first new release will be The Man in the Moon in October 2007. Lots of money, time, and energy will go into promoting the new book and getting the company off the ground.
timewarrior's Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Science-Fiction, Young Adult
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