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A Short Biography

I started writing in the third grade: these awful little, three-to-five page sci-fi vignettes of uncontained imagination.

I am proud to say that my daily activities have not changed in the last thirty years.

What you must understand about me is that I am a middle child through and through. Even though I have always wanted to be a writer, I have also, always been attracted to math and science too. As a pupil at this uniformed, all-guy prep school in Dallas, I was the guy who loved AP Physics and BC Calc and was a nationally ranked fencer.

But the pendulum swung back in college, at Princeton, where I studied Comparative Literature and composed a lot of mediocre poetry under ancient trees, on the forbidden slate rooftops of Mathey/Rocky, in the back rows of many classrooms.

When I graduated, business was the last thing I wanted to do. But I wanted to write, and, out on the job market in 2009, the best gig in town was the Gale Encyclopedia of Electronic Commerce. Researching business and technology, I realized that we are all now living in a sci-fi novel.

Now, world building isn't what interests me so much as character building; I love designing voices that accentuate your value proposition and make you entertaining. You, your business and market and customers, are a fascinating world I don’t need to create but only learn about, and communicate.