I spent twenty years writing and producing programs, editorials, and commercials for radio while acting and directing in community theater. The first full-length story I completed is the yet-to-be-produced outdoor drama "Blackbeard's Final Conquest" in the 1980s followed by two plays that were produced on a Community Theatre stage in the early 1990s. 

My Sister's Keeper is my first novel. It was published in 2007 and has now sold more than 500,000 copies. 

My wife Dorrie and I reside in coastal North Carolina with our two ever-curious tuxedo cats and two badly behaved Morkies.