My first book "Tales Of A New York Limo Driver" was my first book , and I thought that was going to be it. But the bug caught me and I haven't stopped since.

I tried and got rejected from many publishing houses. At the time (2006) self publishing was just starting out. I came across a company called Createspace that I went with, then they got aquired by Amazon and that's how Amazon got in the publishing business.

Cookies and milk on the carpet, followed by a nap. Oh wait, that was kindergarten.

I was dropped on my head at birth, and bounced a couple of times....seriously though, they just come to me and I hear dialog in my head. Traits come as I write the scenes.

Books:

• Home Invasion, Inc. - A corporate home invasion crew
• Gods Of NYC - Greek gods as everyday people in late 50s/early 60s NYC.
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Events

• September 2024 - The Brooklyn Book Festival - 35,000 attendees for a one-day marketplace of authors

Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way

I wanted to be a recording engineer. I landed a non-paying internship at a sumptuous penthouse studio on 57th Street in NYC.

When the muse parks his or her butt on my shoulder and starts whispering in my ear.

Not at all. I get off on that part of this gig.

I write where my head takes me.

I won't do Romance or those 20-pound Fantasy books that have to be mapped out on a mile of butcher paper and you need a PDF to figure out who the players are. Feels like homework to me.

I cried.

Now I cry because of the workload of projects.

Exacting Retribution I and II, Justified Retribution, Granted and KAOS all started life as spec screenplays that didn't sell even though I knew and worked with people connected to Hollywood.

I've always said, I would get more pleasure banging myself in the head with a ball peen hammer than going through that painiful exercise again.

Do your "throwup" version AKA first draft. Then walk away from it and do something else.

Do so many rounds of edits that your eyes bleed. Then do a text to voice round and listen to it with your eyes closed.

Glaring issues will jump out at you like a mugger waiting in a dark alley.

Do another round of edits, rinse and repeat, then call me in the morning.

Also, don't have aspirations of getting picked up by a major publishing house. Even if they like you, they won't do much for you.

Self publish and do your own marketing.

• Delivered ice cubes to bars and restaurants when I was 9 years old
• Rode my bike to cut people's lawns and wash some rich guy's Rolls Royce
• Ran a press in an offset printing shop
• Radio broadcast Engineer & Manager at ABC Radio Networks in NYC
• Managed multimedia and web development teams before anyone knew what a website was
• Voice acting and audio editing
• But driving a limo was what started my writing career

They are all my kids, but Karla Rockoff from KAOS stands out because she's a wiseass like me.

Time.

If I could hammer a nail into the clock to stop time, I would.

I work in a soundproof combination voice over booth audio/video editing suite and writing space.

• In the shower. I want to get a waterproof dry-erase pad to take down ideas
• While driving
• Just before falling asleep

I wait till the muse comes back from their union coffee break, then we get cracking.

• Seeing your work in print
• Glowing reviews from strangers
• The ability to create characters and worlds from a blank page