For more than a dozen years, I have contributed entertainment industry features, celebrity interviews, profiles, investigative pieces, and reviews to a number of national and international publications, including Audience, American Way, Biography, Cosplay Culture, Costco Connection, GQ, Icon, MensHealth.com, Movie City News, Moving Pictures, Music Connection, Paper, Penthouse, Razor, Spin, Spirit, US Airways, and many others. I primarily cover film, television, music, literature, theater, and pop culture, though I also occasionally do pieces on professional sports, health/fitness, business, philanthropy, and more. Job Description: I listen to cool people tell amazing stories. Some of those people: Hunter S. Thompson and Maya Angelou, Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully and Blake Lively, Suge Knight and Deepak Chopra, Toni Morrison and Jonah Hill, Ray Bradbury and Weird Al Yankovic -- though not all at the same time. Too bad; that'd be a pretty cool dinner table, right? In 2010, Adams Media published my first book, ON GRATITUDE. The book was featured on Oprah Winfrey Radio Network and was City of Burbank's 2011 One-City, One-Book official selection. Proceeds from book sales have benefitted Y.O.G.A. for Youth and Friends of Burbank Library, as well as Burbank Arts for All. I have ghostwritten three autobiographies for prominent, trail-blazing individuals. My second book proper, POETS LIKE OUTLAWS, a collection of my finest interviews/profiles illustrated by esteemed fine artist Michelle Anne Morrissey, will be published in 2016. I am also a Kundalini Yoga instructor, father to three sons, and a marching band pianist. I am working on a Kabuki retelling of THE INVISIBLE MAN, scored by cover versions of John Cage's "4'33"​." By the age of 12, I was determined to earn my living as a professional writer, inspired by Clark Kent, Richie Cunningham, Walter Burns, and Kermit the Frog.