Tom Pope lives in New York City. He started his writing career by serving as a freelance journalist, covering the business of healthcare for a number of publications.

He added teaching to his skills by helping high school students with essays in history and literature.

The teaching expanded where he conducted novel writing workshops. His design focused on character development, worldbuilding, and conflict pacing.

This direction prompted his desire to use alternative history in novels. His novels focus on how forces surrounding characters can be changed through nonviolent action. Besides the Violence of Cotton Series, he has recently completed an unpublished work called, Boleyn’s Alternative England, an alternative history of Elizabethan England.

While he uses actual events, his characters face politics, culture, socioeconomics, and ideology from out-of-the-box thinking. His alternative history is a framework to rethink what could have been.