Bio
Tom N. Tumbusch (also known as "TNT") is a freelance copywriter specializing in direct marketing for financial newsletters, technology companies and music publishers. He writes direct mail packages, advertising, brochures, newsletters, articles, web copy, audiovisual scripts, speeches and more. He also provides editing and desktop publishing services, and is available as a "ghost" writer.
TNT has been in the writing and publishing business since 1984, when he got his start as a part-time typist and layout artist. (He still remembers countless hours doing pasteups with rubber cement and Rubylith.) He received his BSJ degree from Ohio University in 1991.
Over the years TNT has written and managed projects in conjunction with companies of every size, including Hasbro, Interbrand, Lorenz Corporation, Lucasfilm Ltd., Mattel, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, The Walt Disney Company, Western Publishing and others. He is a recognized expert in desktop publishing technology and the author of numerous how-to articles for industry journals, including Photoshop Fundamentals, Inside Photoshop, and Creative Designer.
Prior to starting his own business, TNT worked as a writer, editor and project manager for Tomart Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. During his ten-year career at Tomart he served as editor of Action Figure Digest and worked on a variety of regional advertising accounts, including Carlin Audio and Video, the Germantown Independent Telephone Company, and High Voltage Maintenance. He relocated to Cincinnati in September of 2001 and founded Digital Dynamite, Inc. the following year.
TNT's published works include Space Adventure Collectibles (simultaneously published by Tomart and Wallace-Homestead, 1990), Tomart's Price Guide to Worldwide Star Wars Collectibles (co-written with Stephen J. Sansweet, 1994, 1997), and Tomart's Encyclopedia and Price Guide to Action Figure Collectibles (co-written with Bill Sikora and Carol Markowski, 1996).