Retired lawyer discusses satirical legal novel at Scoville Library
SALISBURY – Retired lawyer and fiction writer Tom Morrisson said he spent decades watching fellow attorneys take themselves too seriously. In retirement, he turned that observation into a series of comic legal novels and discussed the latest with former Lakeville Journal Executive Editor Cynthia Hochswender at the Scoville Memorial Library on Tuesday, June 30.
Morrison told the audience he has often thought that his colleagues take themselves too seriously, a sentiment that has been the basis of his series of comic novels, including the new “Close Encounters with Tort$.”
Hochswender asked Morrison how he got started writing fiction.
Although Morrison only started the “Tort$” series at age 74, he said he attempted to write a spy thriller when he was in the Air Force as a young man.
“I knew nothing about spies or writing a novel,” Morrison said. “Luckily, it was never published.”
But in retirement, he revisited the idea.