I’ve been a musician for over sixty years—singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, and vocal arranger. Music shaped my instincts, but so did stories. I worked for years in sales and marketing, and I’ve written ad copy, pitches, presentations… but never fiction.

That changed after the Uvalde shooting. I couldn’t stay quiet. I wrote an epistolary short story, All the Rage, trying to inhabit the mind of a boy planning an attack on his school. It didn’t work—not fully. So I rewrote it as a screenplay, hoping the visceral horror of what gun violence actually looks like would provoke action, not just platitudes.

I thought of the Vietnam War—how public sentiment shifted when Americans saw flag-draped coffins. I thought of Emmett Till’s mother, demanding the press show her son’s mutilated body to ignite outrage.

Realizing I had no pipeline into the film world, I pivoted. I recently finished my first novel, Active Shooter at Jackson High—a novel born from grief, anger, and the belief that story can still move hearts and change minds. 

I have several books in the pipeline, about things I have been thinking about for a long time, both fiction and non-fiction. I look forward to having you as a close companion on my journey!