Author Interview With Tom Evans: Former BBC Sound Engineer Taps Into Cosmic Creativity — Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast

April 18, 2021

My ALLi author guest this week is Tom Evans, a former BBC sound engineer who discovered that he could do much more than manipulate music and vocals. He can try to reverse-engineer the brain and figure out how to tap into creativity itself. The result was an indie publishing career that covers everything from hypnotherapy to metaphysics to fiction about the end of the world. And all with a cosmic soundtrack. I'll let the author and composer tell you the rest.

Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast: Tom Evans Interview

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Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast: About the Author Tom Evans

Tom Evans is an unexpected author turned unexpected meditation guide turned unexpected ambient music composer. Starting with a career in the broadcast industry, he has an insatiable curiosity to discover how things work and to explore how they can be made to work even better. He started with the magic of TV and has now ended up exploring the magic of the mind and latterly the cosmos. His latest foray is in writing metaphysical and visionary fiction. You can find Tom Evans on his website. You can download his free meditations.

Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast: About the Host Howard Lovy

Howard Lovy has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and has spent the last eight years amplifying the voices of independent publishers and authors. He works with authors as a book editor to prepare their work to be published. Howard is also a freelance writer specializing in Jewish issues whose work appears regularly in Publishers Weekly, the Jewish Daily Forward, and Longreads. Find Howard at howardlovy.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Author: Howard Lovy

Howard Lovy is a novelist, nonfiction author, developmental book editor, and journalist. He is also the news and podcast producer for the Alliance of Independent Authors. You can learn more about him at https://howardlovy.com/

This Post Has 2 Comments

Errin Stevens says:
April 18, 2021 at 1:59 PM
I love renaissance people. Great interview, and thank you for contributing what you do to our collective humanity, Mr. Evans. GGM’s “Hundred Years of Solitude” is literary canon at my house. May your tribe increase!
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1. Tom Evans says:
  April 18, 2021 at 2:21 PM
  Thanks for such kind and erudite words Errin
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