When I was eight years old, after reading biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson and Ernest Hemingway, I decided I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I changed my mind at thirteen when I started singing in rock bands—rock stardom somehow seemed more appealing than author-stardom to a pubescent teenager.
I gave up the whole stardom thing in my mid-twenties when I became serious about my Christian faith and got married. My wife, Dale, and I moved to NYC, began writing and singing radio and television commercials, and eventually moved back to Nashville where I answered a call to ordained ministry. I served as an Anglican minister in churches for two decades.
Now, I'm living into that eight year-old's dream by freelancing as a ghostwriter with Kevin Anderson & Associates, based out of NYC, LA, and Nashville. I'm also developing several of my own projects, including a limited series for television.
That project was my thesis for a master's degree in Creative Writing & Literature through Harvard University's online Extension School. My undergraduate degree from Yale is in American Studies, with an emphasis in American Lit. I also have a master of divinity degree from the University of the South.
I have two adult children, Jacob and Maggie, one daughter-in-law, Anna Claire, and four adorable grandchildren, Pearl, Etta, Soji, and Davie. We live in Franklin, TN, and I am one blessed and happy man.