I’m an experienced copywriter, able to brainstorm and execute marketing and advertising copy and PowerPoint™ presentations, craft headlines, taglines, website material, bios, liner notes and brochures, and storyboards (although I leave the art to those more qualified.
I’ve written about 200 titles for preschool and K-6 kids in all formats (educational, coloring and activity, pop-up, storybooks, book-and-music, and Mad Libs-type titles, among many others), and edited 300 titles, working elbow-to-elbow with some brilliant authors, animators, artists, and interactive entertainment teams. I’ve written in prose, verse, caption, tagline, doggerel, journalistic style, and Final Draft.
Add to that a dozen or so cartoons, a couple of screenplays, the editing of three coffee table books on animation, and what’s become something of a cult favorite—The ACME Catalog—for Chronicle Books. My teaching background tested my pain threshold in addressing groups without being seized by terror (you try teaching Chaucer and the power of the semicolon to 11th graders), and have been sent around the world as an informal ambassador for Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and other timeless cartoon properties.
I am a Los Angeles native, and live in a small Lego Star Wars and sparkle pony-strewn house in Burbank with my two small children and a rabbit. Freelance writing is a great vocation. So is fatherhood.
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
Member: Writers Guild of America, west, Animators Guild, Local 839, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Burbank Chamber of Commerce, Headwriters
