-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.