Thomas Greanias 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 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 its Niantic Project and Ingress Augmented Reality Game.