Biographie
Author, producer, literary manager, professor, and editor, he and his companies—Atchity Entertainment, Atchity Productions, Writers Lifeline, and Story Merchant—have developed books, screenplays, and films for both television and theatrical release. His clients' works include nearly 20 New York Times bestsellers such as Jerry Blaine and Lisa McCubbin's The Kennedy Detail (Emmy-nominated Discovery documentary), Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin's Mrs. Kennedy and Me, Dacre Stoker's Dracula: The Un-Dead, Steve Alten's Meg (currently in production with Warner Brothers), James Michael Pratt's The Last Valentine (adapted as The Lost Valentine by Hallmark Hall of Fame), and Jesse Ventura's I Ain't Got Time to Bleed. His own publications include Brae Mackenzie: A Romance of Mythic Identity, The Messiah Matrix, A Writer's Time, Writing Treatments that Sell (co-authored with Chi-Li Wong), and Sell Your Story to Hollywood.
He is also co-owner and manager of The Louisiana Wave Studio in Shreveport, LA, the only automatic wave-generating tank in North America.
Holding a B.A. from Georgetown and a Ph.D. from Yale—where he earned the Porter Prize, Yale's highest academic honor—he previously served as a tenured professor of comparative literature at Occidental College, distinguished instructor at the UCLA Writers Program, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Bologna. Alongside Marsha Kinder, he co-founded and co-edited Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Dreams and the Arts.
He has delivered numerous webinars on various aspects of the entertainment industry, including the notable Master Class in Achieving Your Dreams.
He is a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.
