Portrait of T. R. Schumer

T. R. Schumer

Author, Screenwriter

T. R. SCHUMER is the pen name of Tracy Schumer: Amazon bestselling author, freelance journalist, award winning screenwriter, world traveler, instrument rated pilot, blue water sailor, scuba diver, animal lover, and devoted wife. Tracy is a graduate of the University of South Florida, holds a teaching certificate, and currently resides in Europe.


Have a work ethic and stick to it. I wrote five novels while living aboard a sailboat at sea. And this was with four other people living alongside me. To preserve my concentration, I often wrote in the head. I used the toilet as my chair, with my laptop straddled across my knees. I learned to write inside a rocking, rolling, pitching, sailboat. That’s the level of dedication I have.