
Raised in parochial schools in San Francisco’s Mt. It’s a mystery about a crime-solving priest. The result is “Bless Me Father,” published last May by Melange Books. “Even when I finished, I wouldn’t let her read it - saving that chore for my oldest daughter.” “Just in case things didn’t work out, I wrote secretly in the mornings and evenings and didn’t let my wife know about it,” he says. There’s a “secretive novelist” hiding out in Penngrove.Īfter working for a major utility company (aka PG&E) since he was 18, and then running Petaluma’s popular Pizicato Pizza near Whole Foods, Tom Walsh finally decided to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.
