Thomas Quinn

Thomas Quinn - Profile

Thomas Quinn is a published author of The Venetians, a series of historical novels set in Venice during the Renaissance. The Lion of St. Mark (St. Martin's Press, 2005), tells the story of two proud Venetian nobles that defend Constantinople during the fateful siege by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Soon after, an old family feud is resumed, with deadly consequences. The Sword of Venice (St. Martin's Press, 2007), continues the story as the two oligarchs and their offspring contend with the Turks, rival Italian city-states, and each other to gain supremacy while defending their republic against those powers, bent on destroying her.

Think: The Godfather with beards and chainmail and a few nasty wars thrown in for excitement!

Prior to his writing career, he was a sales and marketing executive with three Fortune 500 companies and several smaller entrepreneurial firms.

"Mr. Eclectic" has interests that reach deep into the far corners of the knowledge universe from military history, business, and music (he's a drummer) to trivia (he was Cornell's trivia champ), travel, cinema, and sports.

He has spent hundreds of millions of other peoples' money, led a a thousand people, played golf with Joe DiMaggio, had dinner with Loretta Lynn, bought Sam Walton a drink (non-alcholic). He once got a drumstick from Buddy Rich, has lived in twenty-two homes, watched the Packers win the Super Bowl with Willie Wood, has paraglided in Switzerland, flown in a glider in Telluride, and visited more than fifty castles in England, Scotland, and Wales.

He writes about subjects he would like to read about - in a style that would keep him entertained. His eclecticism and selectiscism is your delecticism. Enjoy!

He is married with two grown children and lives in the Philadelphia area.

"I'd rather be writing than president"

-- Mr. Eclectic