Tom Douglas, a freelance writer, copy editor and author, has had four books with a military theme published in the Amazing Stories series now handled by James Lorimer & Co. after the demise of Altitude Publishing. Tom has also written a family memoir, "Northern Lights and Blackfly Bites", based on five years spent in Wawa, Ontario after his father, Sgt. Mel Douglas, returned from the Second World War. Two chapters from the manuscript ran as features in The Toronto Star and a third won an award in the City of Ottawa Short Story contest. The manuscript is currently under consideration by a Canadian publisher.

As well, Tom wrote the memoirs of former Squadron Leader Wess McIntosh and helped Wess self-publish the book. Entitled "Permission Granted", it tells of Wess's exploits during the Second World War and his colourful career as a post-war commercial pilot. Tom also edited, "Out of Step", the memoirs of Ed Wissian, an Aboriginal ex-member of the Canadian Forces, which will soon be published by Lorimer. In addition, the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute is in the process of publishing a book about Canadian soldiers who have been awarded valour medals in Afghanistan. Tom edited transcripts of extensive interviews with about 30 Canadian Forces members as the subject matter for the book, tentatively titled "In The Face Of The Enemy."

Next on the agenda is a book about Canada's First Nations members who served in the two world wars.One of the four Amazing Stories books, "Canadian Spies", featuring tales of French-Canadian soldiers operating behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France, is under consideration as a Canadian television docudrama. In addition, an excerpt from the book ran as the cover article in the October/November 2009 edition of The Beaver (since retitled Canada's History Magazine).

Tom is the English copy editor for The Canadian Military Journal - the official magazine of the Department of National Defence. He is also a regular columnist with the Greater Toronto Area edition of Fifty-Five Plus Magazine. That publication has also featured his cover articles on Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin and Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut. Those articles and a travel piece on Holland, focused on the 65th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands, ran in the magazine's Ottawa/Kingston and GTA editions. The latter article resulted from a trip to Holland on a freelance assignment with Canadian Press, the national newswire service. A story and photo filed to CP received wide play in daily and weekly newspapers across Canada and a substantial quote from the article was used in a retrospective of the Netherlands Liberation written by noted military historian Jack Granatstein in Legion Magazine.

Tom frequently addresses service clubs, educational groups and military organizations about his military and travel writing.

The prologues and covers of Tom's book, as well as travel articles, photos and other material, can be seen at: www.tomdouglas.typepad.com