Tom Larsen was a journeyman printer for twenty-five years before scrapping it all for the writer's life. His work has appeared in Newsday, New Millennium Writing, Puerto del Sol and Antietam Review. His short story "Lids" was included in Best American Mystery Stories - 2004. Tom and his wife, Andree spent a decade in the Pennsport section of South Philadelphia and the experience proved invaluable in crafting characters. "For a writer, Pennsport was a casting gold mine. No pretense, no rhetoric, just real people saying what they mean." During their time in Pennsport Tom's screenplay Best Laid Plan was optioned by Benjamin Productions where it may be yet. In 2005 he rewrote the screenplay into the novel Flawed. Tom and Andree presently make their home in Lambertville, New Jersey.