About Me
A Dream Come True
I've always wanted to write a novel and am both lucky and happy to announce my dream has come true--What Goes Around has been published. It was actually the pandemic that spurred this on--there was so much I couldn't do then, so I took a shot at it.
Prior to that it had been a journey-though books have always been in my background. My mother was an editor at Dell Publishing (she'd greeted me at birth with "Nice to see you again"), and I worked in a literary agency--Henry Morrison Inc. while going to college. At the agency I started by delivering manuscripts to publishers in New York City (plenty of subway rides and runs across town), and eventually handled foreign rights, selling on behalf of authors such as Robert Ludlum, and many others.
I went to New York University for both undergraduate and graduate school (where I was inducted into their Hall of Fame), and I earned an MBA in marketing. My thesis, in fact, was on "Marketing in the Publishing Industry," and it was excerpted in the industry trade journal, Publishers Weekly.
From there, I went into marketing with major companies, and eventually opened up my own marketing consultancy.
While I still do consulting, I love being an author, and hope to be a novelist for the rest of my life. Besides writing, my loves are boating, travel (especially Italy!) and playing tennis. I live in Sarasota, Florida and Lake Garda Italy with my wife, who gets credit for all the good things in my life.Plus I have three terrific children.
Fun Fact: My great-grandfather was brought over from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark to work with Thomas Edison in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. He held a number of patents, including innovating with plastic buttons (he eventually became known as "The Button King"). I wear button down shirts whenever possible.