Look and Listen

Biography

My writing can be divided into three separate entities: books, articles and opinions, and book reviews. All of my work falls under what I call Nonfiction in a Fictional Style. I write only about real issues within our modern world, and I try to incorporate as much innovative entertainment value as I can cram into a short space. I write in brief explosions of creativity. This is not something I can bring to mind at will. I have to be in a special mood to do it. I have to feel genuinely inspired or I can't do it. I rarely compose more than even one book review in a single day. My books were years in the making.

Inspiration

My favorite authors are, in no particular order: Anne Rice, Robert Rimmer, Kurt Vonnegut, Al Franken, Thomas Frank, Paul Krugman, and Harold Robbins. I am a huge fan of the Playboy Interviews and Peter Egan's columns in Road & Track and Cycle World. The latter influence is clear in the stories I wrote for a couple of sports car coffee table books, as well as those in my first book, Plastic Ozone Daydream. I have a B.A. in Psychology, with a minor in Sociology, which influenced the subject of my third book, The Last Horizon. My books are inspired by the same patterns of influence from the realm of American pop culture, but the subject matter of each book is unique to itself. Like Al Franken, Bill Maher, and Tom Wolfe, my niche is rather difficult to pigeonhole.