30 years of professional experience

My grandfather founded and published the Ft. Lauderdale Times and my dad was a reporter and president of the National Press Club. My uncle Price Day, was editor in chief of The Baltimore Sun, risked his life for the story, wrote like a dream and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

My mother read to me. I thought reading and writing was what everyone did.

We eat, we sleep, we write.

In 5th grade, I read Leo Rosten’s The Education of Hyman Kaplan to my class.
Then I recited The Ballad of Texas Joe to my 6th-grade classmates. They stood and applauded! Then they elected me the editor of the school newspaper, to which I contributed a fantasy story and an original crossword puzzle. The Chevy Chase News—four mimeographed pages. By eighth grade, with a poem published in my junior high school literary magazine, I was hooked.

Black on Red:
My 44 Years
Inside the
Soviet Union.

In 1988, I discovered the joy of
helping bring someone else’s book to life,
when the world was able to read
Robert Robinson’s extraordinary story,
Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside
the Soviet Union.

I continued on from there.

In addition to books listed in Portfolio,
I’ve enjoyed working as a writer,
editor, reporter, publisher,
publicist, and literary agent.

Related Experience

Newspaper reporter, copy chief, news editor, managing editor, New York News World
General manager and editor, The Harlem Weekly
Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy / Publisher, Washington Institute Press
Director of Communications, Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America
Acting publisher, The Washington Times newspaper
Geraldo, Entertainment Tonight, Mutual Broadcasting, and other appearances, Kennedy book promotion
Slevin on ITS, featured column for ITS World magazine
Prepared authors, corporate & govt. clients (BNFL, Scitor, US cabinet secretary) for media appearances
Freelance magazine articles including Cosmopolitan and FORTUNE