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Tom Schneider
Philadelphia, United States

Tom lives in South Jersey with his three kids and their cats, Delilah and Freya. He 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. 

Tom wrote his first screenplay; Exiled while living in Moscow, Russia. After several more he wrote his first novel, Escape The Future, a post-apocalyptic thriller. A fascination with the American Revolution led Tom to write a historical action-thriller series taking place in 1776 that captures Washington’s surprise blizzard attack in Trenton and the untold story of Betsy Ross’s secret mission to save the revolution.

He stayed in the 18th Century time period as he explored the horror genre with Witch Hunt 1730 and Headless 1776.

His Broken Monarch series of dark action thrillers begins in 1979 and centers on Glenn, an AWOL, on-the-run, and unwilling assassin from a secret government program. It’s in the blood-soaked Hollywood Sacrifice that we meet Casey, who takes on a central-role in the subsequent release Casey’s Crucible

Tom has returned to the screenplay format, adapting some of his books and is currently working on a historical horror story taking place during prohibition in 1933.

Awards

Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35% for
Headless 1776
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35% for
Dead at Silver Lake

Scripts By Tom

Dead at Silver Lake
A young moonshiner witnesses a murder and gets caught in a mystery that threatens his sanity, his life, and his soul.
Feature Crime, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 75pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35%
Casey's Crucible
When the FBI and CIA use a modeling agent as a honeypot to catch her lover, an on-the-run assassin, she uses everything she’s got to turn the tables on them.
Feature Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller For sale 79pp
Nightingale's Gambit
It’s 1776 and Washington is preparing to cross the Delaware River, but to save the revolution, she’ll need to stop an army.
TV Pilot Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War For sale 62pp
Hollywood Sacrifice
The hunted becomes the hunter when a former government assassin tries to save a dancer from a secret-society’s deadly ritual.
Feature Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller For sale 67pp
Montauk Mayhem
When a boy goes missing, a fortuneteller holds the key, and only an on-the-run former government agent can save him. But he’ll have to unleash hell to do it.
Feature Crime, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 68pp
Headless 1776
1776 Sees the brutal terror of the Headless Hessian as Elijah travels from Philadelphia to the village of North Tarrytown. His journey leads to a showdown with the murderous horseman on All Hallows Eve.
Feature Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Horror For sale 50pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35%
Witch Hunt 1730
In 1730, a reporter travels to the Pine Barrens to cover a witch trial and learns there’s more to the story than witches and someone wants him dead.
Feature Crime, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 96pp