:: Biography

I've been writing SF, Fantasy and Horror since I could read. While other fathers were reading Disney stories to their kids, mine would wait until my mother was out of earshot, then treat me to some creepy classic from Edgar Allan Poe. Soon I was devouring H.P. Lovecraft tales, and moving on to King, Straub, Tolkien and everything else I could find to scare, thrill and amaze. And after closing each book I'd find time to dream that someday I'd try to do what they had done; and then I'd imagine that maybe someday I would help another kid stay up after a story, afraid to turn off the closet light.

After winning a creative writing award in High School, I went on to place several short stories, then my first novel, Twilight of the Fifth Sun, in 1998, after five years of writing and publishing short stories.  In 2005 I won second place in L. Ron Hubbard's Writer's of the Future Contest (for my story 'The Red Envelope', which is in the current Anthology, volume XXIII).

The Belhurst Story was my first effort at non-fiction, although its focus remained rooted in the supernatural sightings occurring at this site in the Finger Lakes.

Currently I'm shopping around to agents  several novels and screenplays (and working on short stories, another novel and another screenplay, following that fickle muse...  )