By day, I'm a technical writer, editor, publisher and graphics monkey. By night, I'm a novelist and screenwriter with one novel currently in print, two others in progress, several as-yet-unproduced screenplays making the rounds and a collection of essays on topics ranging from indie writing and publishing to the delicious imperfection of life with animals.
I began as a self-published author in the 1990s, then sold my self-published novel to a major house and am now a self-published author once again.
So far, my fiction and screenplays have won or been finalists in the Writer’s Digest National Self-Publishing Award, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, the Page International Screenwriting Awards, the American Zoetrope Screenplay Awards, the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Awards and the 5×5 Actor’s Choice Awards.