Tom Darling
Biography
Tom Darling grew up in northeastern Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and SUNY Cortland he lived in New York City for four years before leaving for Vermont.
He wrote the dark comedy one-act play "The Best Roommate in the World" which was produced at Clark University in Worcester, MA. It was chosen to be revived the following fall for incoming freshmen. He has since written a play and various prose works.
While in the big city, he worked for several publishers, including William Morrow, George Braziller, and for the notorious Barney Rossett. Before leaving New York, he began writing and editing articles for a retail-consulting firm.
As a freelance writer, he has published in several retailing journals, including Women’s Wear Daily, Home Furnishing News, and Footwear News. In addition, his book reviews and commentaries have appeared in the Southern Vermont Review. Other articles have appeared in Rugby Magazine, the Mountain Villager, Vamlegram, Edutopia, and one of his cartoons has graced the pages of Seven Days, the local Vermont arts magazine. Many of his writing is available on his blog Tom Darling Writes!
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Books
Mother Mayhem
by Tom Darling
Price: Free! 17830 words.
Published on August 5, 2010. Screenplays.
A mother protects her family in a post-apocalyptic small town. When a psychotic gang of ADHD riddled teen boys kidnap her son, she fights back. A quick, action packed read.
It is a Pleasure to Burn
by Tom Darling
Price: Free! 5120 words.
Published on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
Agnes Jackson goes from one numbed-down class to the next. She naively feeds her school’s anti-intellectual mood by hosting book burning party, which, by junior year is a dark spectacle. Agnes comes to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run. Based on the novel "The Attic Notebooks".
The Attic Notebooks
by Tom Darling
Price: Free! 33370 words.
Published on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
Agnes Jackson goes from one numbed-down class to the next. Following freshman year, she naively feeds her school’s anti-intellectual mood by hosting book burning party. Originally a fund raiser, by junior year it is a dark spectacle that ends in tragedy and with Agnes coming to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run.
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