Tom studied philosophy and painting at Hampshire College and showed his work in galleries across the US before trading his paint brushes for an old typewriter at a pawn shop somewhere in New England.
He wrote his first screenplay; Exiled while living in Moscow, Russia. After several more he wrote his first of six novels.
His screenplay Dead at Silver Lake, placed as a semifinalist in Creative Screenwriting’s Unique Voices Screenplay Contest, 2023. His work Headless 1776 placed as a quarterfinalist in Script2Comic 2022.