\I have always known I'd be a writer.  At 8 years old, I was writing stories using the weekly list of 'spelling words' we all had to learn.  My teacher thought this was very unusual!  The actual 'first' short story I wrote was when I was in High School, called 'And a Free Flying High'.  My friends thought I'd been on drugs when I wrote it!  I assure you I was not-- and they were joking!

I found myself working in the movie industry, in 1984.  I was a model-builder, mostly working on things like cat food and Kenner toys commercials.  Even a 'hallway' for a Scientology commercial!  Oh, yeah.  There was the occasional movie that came along.  "King Kong Lives!", "Hollowman", "Billy Bathgate", "Bicentennial Man" and (oddly enough...) "TITANIC".  

The fates actually smiled upon me in 1988.  A friend of mine had been directing a second unit for a film called "Dead Heat" and the producers had gotten to know him and his ambitions.  They told him if he had a script they could shoot for $500K, they wanted to know about it.  He remembered a story I had written about 2 boys that had concocted a Halloween costume that made the two of them to look like a two-headed man.  They were trying it out and their neighbor  opened the door,  took a look at them and screamed "MARTIANS!!!"  The story took place in 1938 and Orson Wells was doing his 'War of the Worlds" radio show.  So...

We  came up with a contemporary script that was produced and released by Touchstone Pictures as "Spaced Invaders"!  My friend, Patrick Read Johnson, was the director and I was the Art Director.  And I became a member of the Writer's Guild.  

In the following years, I wrote a number of scripts that no one would read, no one that mattered.  So, I converted my script SCIENCE FICTION to a novel called EINSTEIN'S GATE.   And here we are!