Vendetta Stone
Veteran sports writer and copy editor Tom Wood has covered a wide variety of events for The Tennessean—ranging from Nashville-area universities to boxing, from the Iroquois Memorial Steeplechase to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Game. He also spent two summers writing entertainment features for The Tennessean and worked in Gannett's Nashville Design Studio. Since his retirement, he has continued to contribute freelance articles for several news outlets. He had a fiction short story published in the 2012 Civil War anthology 'Filtered Through Time' and contributed an interview to the 1989 collection 'Feast of Fear: Conversations With Stephen King'. The native North Carolinian and Middle Tennessee State University graduate is has also appeared as a background character actor in several episodes of the ABC series 'Nashville' as well as several movie projects and a music video. 'Vendetta Stone' is Wood’s first novel.