from journalist to lawyer to writer

Novels and short stories,
from a life spent watching people closely.

I came to fiction late, after a career in the law. My stories live where I have — California, the Bay, a little of LA, and the odd corner of Dubai or Moscow when I can justify the trip.

Tommie W. Whitener
about me
Tommie W. Whitener

After previous careers in journalism and law, I came to fiction late but with passion. Calling on my world experiences in California and from Dubai to Russia for inspiration and with a lifetime of enthusiastic reading as background, my writings feature people as they really are, by turns loving and loved, idealistic and endearing, and, unfortunately, at the same time, deeply flawed.


recent writing

From my notebooks.

All stories

my novels

California, Czarist Russia, and the rooms in between.