About the author
I wouldn’t call myself a stay-at-home dad, though I’m definitely hands-on with my kids. I raised my son alone for four years before I met my wife, and we have two smart, beautiful daughters. I’m the main cook in my home, and the meals are typically whole-foods, plant-based, so my kids mostly hate dinner time.
I’ve written fiction at least as far back as when I was six, but it wasn’t until my son was born — and I was twenty-nine — that I decided to write a novel. After several attempts and no agent, I landed a micro-publisher called Joffe Books.
Joffe has since grown into one of the UK’s largest digital-first publishers, and I have written over twenty more novels and branched out to two other publishers, including Bookouture, a division of Hachette UK, and Inkubator Books, a Dublin-based publisher.
Today my kids are 19, 11, and 8. We have a small homestead in rural upstate New York in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. I write full time, though being a father and a husband, an ambitious gardener and chicken farmer feels like a couple more full-time jobs thrown in. But keeping busy suits me, so I’ve also started a podcast, a gardening & homestead YouTube Channel, and I still run out to do the occasional broadcast TV camera job. Once, many moons ago, I worked in the movies, too, and earned a certificate in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy.
Are you still reading? God bless you. I guess that’s all I have to say about me. Oh! The books. So, I mainly write crime fiction — mysteries and police procedurals and psychological thrillers. But we need to keep things fresh in life, and creatively we have to grow, so there are some exciting new directions I’ll be taking in the coming years. I hope you’ll stick along for the ride.
Thank you for reading, for your invaluable support, and for all that you do.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES
United States National Drama & Speech Award, 1993
Certificate in Filmmaking, New York Film Academy, NYC, 1997
Best Suspense Novel, Next Generation Indie Awards, 2022
INTERVIEWS AND STORIES
Live interview on Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ podcast “Wine, Women & Writing” / Authors on the Air Global Radio Network
Q&A: “Ten Things...About Me” / Female First UK
Article: “Local Novelist Moves into Crime Fiction” / Adirondack Daily Enterprise
On-air Interview by Todd Moe / North Country Public Radio
