Thorne was born in the United States. After a successful career as a television actor, Thorne began writing professionally, winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room." He went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel, Sword of Damocles.Other stories he has written include contributions to Flying Pen Press's anthology Space Grunts, MV Media's Steamfunk, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.As a screenwriter, Thorne has worked with Kickstart Entertainment to develop two of their properties, Of Bitter Souls and Sword of Dracula, for television. He was a writer for season 9 of the United States network's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, season 2 of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, seasons 3,4 and 5 of TNT's Leverage.In 2014 Lion Forge Entertainment and NBC-Universal tapped Thorne to reboot the global fan favorite TV series, KNIGHT RIDER in comic book form.Thorne is also the co-creator of Phantom Canyon, an audio drama from Pendant Productions.Thorne is also a co-founder and writing partner of GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008.