About Me

Since you have clicked on the "About Me" page, you apparently want to know about, well, me. I wish I could tell you that I was raised by an ancient ninja clan or something mega-cool like that, but the truth is I'm an action fiction author (with occasional forays into other genres when the mood strikes). My writing has been described as tough, uncompromising, and hard-hitting. I do not believe in pulling punches. Violence must be tempered with emotion and destruction leavened with human drama, because carnage only matters when the characters aren't cardboard cutouts.

I am also a seasoned rock music journalist, formerly penning personality interviews and album reviews for Hardrock Haven. While my fiction leans toward the hard-as-bullets end of the literary spectrum, my journalism style has been called edgy and humorous. You know how some writers are one dimensional? Yeah, I don't want to be that guy.

I won my first short story writing contest at the age of 16 with "Fatal Love," the true life tale of my uncle's tragic, sacrificial death in Vietnam. A few years later I made my first sale, a short horror story called "Broken Mirror," to "Night Terrors" magazine. 

In 2010 my survival-horror script "Gristle" made it into the semi-finals of the prestigious Slamdance Screenplay Competition where it was called "a perfect blend of high drama and blood-'n'-guts slasher horror" (it has since been published as a co-authored extreme horror novel). In the last few years I have published an action-revenge novella called "Resurrection Bullets" and a hardboiled vigilante-action short called "The Killing Question." In 2013, I released my debut action novel, The Assassin's Prayer and in early 2016 I published the pseudo-sequel, The Assassin's Betrayal.

I currently reside in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York with a wife I love, two daughters I adore, a pair of cats I wish I could use as target practice, and enough firepower and ammo to ensure that I am never bothered by door-to-door salesmen.