Welcome to my Biography Page!

 

This page will tell you a little bit about me and some of the things I'm interested in.

 

Be warned, it's basically the same page as the one found on my copywriting web site, ExpertCopywriter.com.  So if you've already read that bio, then you'd read all of this already.  Do something more constructive with your time, like buy and read my books (and if you can do both simultaneously, I want to meet you).

 

  1. Biography

  2. Personal Interests

Biography:

I first began writing professionally at the age of 17, for a small Los Angeles trade newspaper.  Over the past twenty years, I have published over 200 articles, stories, features and columns.  I'm a former member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Georgia Press Association, and was one of the youngest members in the latter organization's history.  My work has appeared in Starlog, Science Fiction Chronicle, and many other magazines.  In addition to my magazine work, I'm also the former Entertainment Editor and film critic for the Southeast Georgian and Camden Country Tribune newspapers, now consolidated as the Tribune & Georgian.   I'm currently an active

I'm also proud to have recently joined Moonstone Books as an editor and Special Projects Coordinator.  In this capacity, I will be supervising the first reprinting of Jeff Rice's original Kolchak: The Night Stalker novels in more than thirty years.  Featuring cover art by my good friend, bestselling media illustrator and artist Keith Birdsong (Star Trek, Star Wars, Xena, and many more), this landmark publication will be published in both limited edition and trade states.  I'm also consulting Project Manager on Doc Savage: The Unproduced Radio Scripts, the first new Doc Savage material to see print in twenty years, and will be editing the first original Zorro fiction anthology in half a century.

My Hellboy story, "Unfinished Business", co-authored with New York Times bestselling novelist Ed Gorman (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night) appeared in the Hellboy: Odder Jobs anthology, edited by Christopher Golden.  "The Shadow That Shapes the Light", also written with Ed Gorman, appeared in the anthology Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles, which went on to receive a Bram Stoker nomination for best anthology of the year from the Horror Writers of America (HWA).  One of my favorite stories to date, "Fear Itself", appeared in the special Stephen King Halloween issue of Cemetery Dance magazine in October, 2005.

My new Kolchak story, "Bones of the Past", is scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2006 in the inaugural anthology, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook (Volume I).  My next short story, "Lessons Learned", stars the world's first costumed superhero, The Phantom, and is scheduled for release in early 2007.  This significant anthology marks the first appearance of Phantom prose fiction since the 1970's, when a string of novels, written by Phantom creator Lee Falk, were published.

Personal Interests:
Fortunately, my life isn't all about sitting in front of a computer!  I'm also an avid scuba diver, hiker, and mountain biking enthusiast, and take every available opportunity to travel and experience everything that life has to offer.   To that end, I've traveled through all 48 contiguous U.S. states and extensively in both Mexico and Canada. 

I've hiked to the remote cliff dwellings of the ancient Anasazi in Arizona and New Mexico (Yes, some of them are quite a long hike out; bring lots of water!  I've also visited Acoma, the  famous pueblo known as Sky City (before Caucasians were allowed in only by bus), dove the remote caverns of Florida's famous springs (there's nothing like several million gallons of rushing spring water to get you back on top...literally!), and canoed for a week on the Colorado River (during which I  became violently ill from exposure to polluted water). 

In my younger years, I even found myself less than a fifty yards from the Space Shuttle just minutes after its landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, separated from the spacecraft by little more than an easementt and a twelve foot high chain link fence.  Watching the steam rising from the shuttle as it was hosed down is a sight I'll remember for the rest of my life.

I'm a native of the Los Angeles area and was born at Harbor General hospital in Torrance, the real hospital portrayed on the classic TV show, "Emergency."  I also attended Torrance High School, which appeared as Sunnydale High in the hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"  (That's L.A. for you...one big film location!).

I recently returned to L.A. (and copywriting!) after thirteen years in Florida to pursue a career in film.  Copywriting allows me to pick and choose the film projects with which I am associated.  I was recently Production Coordinator and Assistant Unit Production Manager on Wednesday Again, starring Richmond Arquette, Brad Heller, Mick Berry, and Hollywood legend Marty Ingels.  I'm currently co-producing Space Reserved, a feature film scheduled for production sometime in 2008.