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BornMay 24, 1950
DiedDecember 13, 2022(72)
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Captivating her audience and leaving them speechless was Sue Thomas’ trademark. The inspiration behind the award-winning family TV series Sue Thomas: FBEye, she not only captured the hearts of millions of Americans but also hearts in 64 nations around the world where the TV show is syndicated.
Born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Sue faced overwhelming odds when, at the age of 18 months, she became profoundly deaf. Instead of institutionalizing Sue, her dedicated parents set out to provide the tools to enable her to live and survive in the world of sound. It was imperative to them that little Sue would learn to speak, even though she heard nothing. Years of speech therapy gave her the voice that would one day be heard worldwide. Deemed “a dummy” and put into the slow-learner class throughout her public school days, she was finally discovered by her typing teacher, who saw the raw potential concealed by Sue’s deafness. Through the intervention of this teacher, Sue went on to college, where she studied political science and international relations and received her BS degree before doing post-graduate work in counseling at Case Western Reserve and Columbia Bible College and Seminary. The highlight of her professional career was in Washington, DC, where the FBI recruited her fo
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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” Voltaire
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I write about life, nature and technology. I’ve just completed The Fault in Reality, my third novel, after twenty years of writing journalism, academic works, and several nonfiction books. The story is set in 2016 between the week of the EU Referendum and the week Trump was elected. It takes place in two seaside towns: Bournemouth, Dorset, where I live, and Santa Monica, California, where I often wish I lived. It’s about webcams, the umwelt, bookshops, odd happenings, forests, beaches, Silicon Valley, the climate crisis and, inevitably, the future.
My nonfiction books to date include Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age (2017), a beginner’s guide to technobiophilia with practical activities; Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace (2013), a study of nature metaphors in cyberculture; and Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004), a travelogue/memoir of life online. Also, ‘Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders’ (1995) and most recently I contributed to ’25: Celebrating 25 Years of Nottingham Trent University’s MA in Creative Writing‘, which I founded in 1994.
My fiction includes the novels Corresponden