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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 television and theatrical. His clients' books include nearly 20 New York Times bestsellers, including 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 (in production with Warner Brothers), James Michael Pratt's The Last Valentine (The Lost Valentine with Hallmark Hall of Fame), Jesse Ventura's I Ain't Got Time to Bleed. His own books include Brae Mackenzie: A Romance of Mythic Identity, The Messiah Matrix, A Writer's Time, Writing Treatments that Sell (with Chi-Li Wong), and Sell Your Story to Hollywood.
He also co-owns and manages The Louisiana Wave Studio in Shreveport, LA, the only automatic wave-generating tank in North American.
Georgetown B.A., Yale Ph.D. (winner of the Porter Prize, Yale's highest academic award), in his former career, he was tenured professor of comparative literature at Occidental College, distinguished instructor at UCLA Writers Program, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Bologna. With Marsha Kinder, he co-founded and -edited Dreamworks: An interdisciplinary journal of dreams and the arts.
He has given countless webinars on all aspects of entertainment, notably Master Class in Achieving Your Dreams.
He's a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the PGA.
