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GRITTY MEMOIR BY EXOTIC DANCER TURNED BANKING EXECUTIVE RECALLS FRAUD, DEBAUCHERY, HEARTBREAK
AND REINVENTION
Tomorrow May Be Too Late By Thomas Marino GRITTY MEMOIR BY EXOTIC DANCER TURNED BANKING EXECUTIVE RECALLS FRAUD, DEBAUCHERY, HEARTBREAK AND REINVENTION Before he realized its worth, Thomas Marino’s most undervalued asset was stolen from him—his heart. A confident, handsome and gifted financial executive, Thomas Marino, author of Tomorrow May Be Too Late, offers readers a gritty, free-flowing memoir of life, love, loss and reinvention. Marino shares intimate thoughts, devastating real-world incidences and coming-of-age sexual experiences that will hit home for anyone who has ever loved and lost. Tomorrow May Be Too Late was lovingly, yet painstakingly written over nearly two decades to include a voyeuristic look at a vulnerable yet Teflon young gay man’s adventures and struggles—including a messy divorce, one-night-stands, white collar crime, heartbreak, spiritual intervention and the birth of a child. Occasionally irreverent and sometimes promiscuous, Marino doesn’t deny that his lifestyle has been at times… questionable, to say the least. A divorced banking executive in one of the largest cities in the U.S. by day, Marino was hiding a secret identity during his early twenties when the book begins. Not only was he gay but he also worked as a male exotic dancer at night. However, it wasn’t until he fell head-over-heels for his first male lover, someone who not only stole his heart but who also emptied his bank account that his world began to unravel and consequently fall apart. “My life story is a love story filled with errors in judgment, misfortune and bad behavior based on inexperience and naiveté,” says Marino. “However, the title Tomorrow May Be Too Late exemplifies my lessons learned. I had to go to the darkest place in my heart before I found the light to survive and then thrive again.” Now happily married, Marino has biologically fathered a son using a donor egg and his husband’s sister as the surrogate. In fact, this spring, the couple is expecting twins using his husband’s sperm and the same egg donor and surrogate. Marino hopes that others; gay or straight, male or female, religious or atheist, blue or white collar, will appreciate his brutal honesty and identify with his challenges in their own way and subsequently understand their own reasons and motivations for past mistakes and indiscretions. The book promises readers will experience anger, happiness, sadness and laughter as Marino explores the following themes: Coming of age as a gay male in an un-gay white collar world Turning a blind eye to bank fraud as a banking executive Divorce from a woman because of homosexuality Living a lie as a buttoned-up banker while stripping for dollar bills at night Making it big in banking without a college degree as a gay man Promiscuity and dealing with subsequent regrets Healing after heartbreak Spotting the signs of a toxic relationship Understanding the difference between love and lust Catholicism and a spiritual gay man A banking executive, Thomas Marino is a proud native of Southern New Jersey, where he lives with his husband Noe and son Nicholas. Self-described as rough around the edges, drinking too many beers on Friday nights and happy wearing a ball cap, Tom has spent the majority of his working life in retail banking. With no college degree or formal training as a writer, Tom realized his dream of writing a book based on his first love affair with another man, while sometimes working three jobs at a time. He attributes his gutsy, gritty, no-holds-barred honesty in writing to confident meditation and reflection. Tomorrow May Be Too Late is available at www.TomorrowMayBeTooLate.com and at other major online bookselling sites. For more info or an interview with Tom contact Kristi Hughes: kristi@smithpublicity.com Posted by Thomas Marino on February 2, 2010 REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ### © All Rights Reserved, Contact Info: (Kristi Hughes at Kristi@smithpublicity.com) Media provided by: GayWebSource.com/wire - Gay Media and Press Network.  |
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