Biography
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thomas Hauck earned his B.A. in History of Art at Tufts University, graduating magna cum laude. Tom then embarked on a career as a rock musician and songwriter, playing guitar with Boston-based bands including the Atlantics and Ball and Pivot.
After leaving the music business Tom continued to use his writing skills in non-profit administration and development. He earned his M.B.A. at Endicott College in 2004. After serving with leading North Shore cultural non-profits including the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Montserrat College of Art, and the North Shore Music Theatre, Tom founded THCS in 2006. Tom is also the editor of Renaissance Magazine, a national glossy devoted to the ren/medieval experience.
“My goal with THCS is to make life easier for busy professionals,” says Tom. “For most people, their core business isn’t writing. It’s web design, or banking, or real estate. Busy professionals need to have their great ideas communicated clearly and effectively to the marketplace. That’s what I do.”
In addition to serving his corporate and non-profit clients, Tom writes fiction and has completed three novels. Pistonhead is a coming-of-age novel about a guitar player in a rock band who faces difficult choices. Lucas Manson, a literary horror thriller, pits FBI agent Mark Dylan against a charismatic multimillionaire evangelist who is the leader of a bloodthirsty hominid species. Both are available on Amazon.com. The forthcoming Roses for the Reaper is a literary international thriller that pits Defense Intelligence Agency agent Kevin Lone against the murderous Skull Group, in a plot to gain control of newly discovered platinum mines in the impoverished nation of Mali.
Tom’s short stories have been published in The Armchair Aesthete, The Bitter Oleander, and The MacGuffin. His collection of short stories and poems, Public Image: Stories and Poems, was published in 2009.
Tom lives with his wife Kim Smith, a garden book author, in a house overlooking historic Gloucester Harbor. Tom and Kim have two children.