Tom Collins

M. Thomas (Tom) Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape and the mountains around Asheville, North Carolina. Collins is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ALM publication Law Technology News for his contribution to the use of technology in the legal services community. Citytech, a London-based publication, called him an "outstanding individual and visionary" when he was named as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders. Although retired from the commercial world, he continues to write and speak on leadership and management as well as pen his mystery series, Mark Rollins Adventure Adventures and his short story series about Asheville and its Applewood Manor.