Biography

I was born and raised in Philadelphia where I lived a typical childhood with a far more interesting fantasy life. I mean, how many other eight year olds were sticking their Star Wars action figures in Ziploc bags filled with water and putting them in the freezer to recreate the ice planet of Hoth? (Really? That many? Never mind.)

I wrote my first book in ninth grade; a horror story about a demon attacking the beach town of Avalon, NJ. It was a class assignment in which we typed up our books and bound them in a cardboard cover. (I used a manila folder for mine because I liked paperbacks more than hard covers back then. Still do.) I no longer have a copy of the book, but I'm sure the story was utterly horrible.

I attended West Chester University where I majored in Theatre Arts with a directing emphasis. I also wrote my second book then. The manuscript was never bound in a manila envelope, but I do still have a copy of it ... so I know exactly how horrible it is. Someday I plan to rewrite it, make it much better, tell everyone that I wrote it back in college and just leave it at that.

After college, I moved to Los Angeles and was very lucky to get a job as a page at Paramount Pictures only months after I got into town. I worked as a tour guide and usher, and I performed temp office work around the lot. The highlight of my experience as a page was when Robin Williams hijacked one of my tours and did a few minutes of improv. Eventually, I took a position working in the studio's licensing department where I quickly worked my way up to middle management. Sadly, Robin Williams never came around to hijack any of my work there.

After a while, one of my friends in the publishing industry offered me the opportunity to write a Buffy, The Vampire Slayer short story for a collection she was editing. Well, when I heard how little money I could make as a writer, I immediately quit my job to try it full time. (Stupid, I know, but it kind of worked for me.)

I started out by writing books based on such wonderful TV shows as Star Trek, Roswell, and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. I have since written over 30 books based some of the best shows on TV, adding The West Wing, Alias, and Prison Break to that ever growing list.

While I continue to work on these media tie-ins, I have also been focused more on my own original fiction, including my teen series DRAMA! and the Simon Pulse Romantic Comedy Love, Hollywood Style.

Stay tuned. There's much more to come...