I started writing in third grade (mostly stories about mowing down Nazis) and was editor of my sixth grade newsletter. Years later I went to graduate school for poetry writing, studied under Allen Ginsberg, and produced a poetry magazine, Plainspeak. Subsequently I wrote two cancer newsletters for Duke University Cancer Center and software manuals and training programs for The Nielsen Company.

Fascinated by the way people misinterpret lyrics and the messages of song, I started my first novel, Misheard Lyrics in 1989, believe it or not, and chipped away at it infrequently until 2015. I decided at that time that I should take the advice I had given to a friend who "couldn't find time" to write his own novel: You've got time. You've got a half an hour a day. Just write something. So I did. With the help of that friend, I managed to finish Misheard Lyrics on Christmas Day, 2017.

I have contributed technical chapters about the Internet to two widely-published books and several national magazines. I have also written numerous white papers and seven non-fiction books about social media and social selling. But I enjoy fiction writing the most.

I live in the Twin Cities with my wife.