While she never let anyone read her notebooks, stories, journal entries and poems, they would form the launching pad for her later career as an author.įor her impressive works Tamara Ireland Stone has received many nominations including one for the Cybils award. The simple act of writing down what she had in her head had saved her from a dark place when she was a teen. She would go on to write for business for more than two decades even as she thought of one day writing fiction. It was from this time that she was hooked into technology and later on pursued a career in it.īesides gaming and technology, she would become interested in writing and while she was in high school she would spend most of her afternoons reading newspapers and dreaming of a career as a journalist.Īfter graduating from college, she decided to combine her love of technology with her passion for writing to pursue a career in communications and marketing. Ireland Stone was born in Silicon Valley and as a child helped her father build and test game systems from Atari. In her novels, she merges her passion for telling stories with her experience in the tech industry to tell some inspiring and compelling narratives. She would then become a New York Times bestselling author when she published her debut novel “Every Last Word” in 2015. Tamara would become a cofounder of Rainmaker Communications in 2000 and led communications and marketing strategy for all manner of companies from established industry giants to hot startups. At the company, she led the media relations and analyst teams during some of the most dramatic years of growth for the company. She would then leave and head to Siebel Systems where she was Director of Corporate Communications. It was at the public relations company that she got to work on the launch of the iMac, where she got to work with Steve Jobs when he was just coming back to Apple. She was a manager at Niehaus Ryan Wong, where she was in charge of some of their largest accounts. The author had provided communications services and marketing strategy services to various technology companies from Zendesk to Apple for more than two decades. Tamara Ireland Stone is a young adult and contemporary fiction author best known for her “Time Between Us” series of novels.
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