Thomas Greanias

Thomas Greanias (born February 19, 1965 in Wilmette, Illinois) is an American novelist and media entrepreneur. He is also the founder and CEO of @lantis Media Corporation. Greanias graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois in 1983. Greanias then graduated from Northwestern University in 1987 with a bachelors degree and a masters degree in journalism. While still in college, he began reporting from Washington, D.C. as an on-air correspondent for NBC television affiliates.

Greanias's first published novel was Raising Atlantis, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In April 2008, Simon & Schuster released a sequel, The Atlantis Prophecy. In August 2009 Greanias's third novel: The Atlantis Revelation was released.

In June 2009 a paperback titled The Atlantis Legacy was released. This was not a new work, but a bundling of the first two novels into a single book.

Greanias is a "hybrid" author who has found success in digital publishing with multiple No. 1 bestselling eBooks from his own @lantis Books imprint, as well as success in print with multiple New York Times bestsellers from Simon & Schuster. He was the first novelist to strike a deal with Amazon for an eBook that become a No. 1 bestseller (Raising Atlantis) in 2003. Ten years later, his novella The Alignment: Ingress, the first installment of a brand-new series is the first publishing event from Google through it's Niantic Project and Ingress Augmented Reality Game.

The Chiron Confession, Wrath of Rome and Rule of God are part of the Dominium Dei Trilogy, which will come out in a single volume—Dominium Dei—in 2014.

The Alignment: Ingress is the first installment in the brand-new series The Alignment in association with Google's Niantic Project and Ingress Augmented Reality Game. Set as a prequel or reboot to the Raising Atlantis series, The Alignment series follows the all-new adventures of astroarchaeologist Conrad Yeats and linguist Serena Serghetti as they piece together the secret origins of human civilization in hopes of saving its future.

The Alignment: Federal City is a hardcover novel and sequel coming out in 2014.