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Why Talk to Tom?
Tom Sykes has spent much of his life moving between music, movies, television, business, writing, and documentary filmmaking, usually without following the route he originally intended.
His book, A Long Hard Road, grew out of that experience. It’s a story about dreams, detours, failure, persistence, and why some dreams remain worth carrying even when they don’t turn out the way you imagined.
Along the way, Tom has built a career in the entertainment business, written and recorded original music, made documentaries about Virginia history, and discovered that some of the best stories are the ones that didn’t seem particularly important while they were happening.
