Thanks for visiting and if you’ve read any of my work, thank you for taking the time. There’s so much content out there, so please know that I am truly humbled by anyone choosing to spend their ever-more-precious reading or viewing time on work that I created.

But even more than that, now you’re here(!), having actually clicked through to learn something about me as a person. I know what I’m interested in about the artists that I enjoy… but I also know that I’m most interested when they reveal as little as humanly possible about themselves and their methods.

Their ‘tricks’.

So, as a creator, I will probably engage in as little revealing as I can get away with. Today, that appears really difficult to do as I’ve noticed so many other authors have blogs that they can vomit into about everything from self-publishing to traditional models to why the GOT finale sucked and who they voted for and who knows what else.

No judgments here, I am guilty of many a lengthy, self-revealing, sometimes even self-congratulatory post on Medium or on Reddit or any number of other places. So I get the appeal of sharing and constant engagement, but I hope it’s not a necessity to have a blog, an IG account, a Twitter, and whatever else. I just don’t think I’d find the time and focus necessary to write if I have to spend time on all these other things.

Plus, I think some mystery and distance is a good thing. Great, even.

Okay, so… about me? Here goes…

I’m in my early 40’s and live in an eerily perfect suburb of New Jersey (think Westview in Wandavision), with my wife and two children (pictured above!). I came to writing and self-publishing novels from the world of film and television. You can see my credits as a television editor as well as some of the films I’ve written and directed in the ‘Film Works’ link above.

My goal as a writer is to create series spanning worlds populated by characters that readers grow to love or hate; either one will do, as long as they stay interested and keep turning the page! I want the stories to be satisfying and to reward viewers for sticking with them, sometimes over a very long haul; for paying attention to the details so that going back and reading them again either confirms what you’d suspected or illuminates some new aspect that you hadn’t noticed before. I’m basically writing stories that I want to read but, for whatever reason, have not found.

I began in narrative fiction, so leaving film behind as a primary creative outlet feels a bit like coming full circle. In fact, the third book in my new series, The Cryptid Cabal, began as a short story written in high school english class my senior year. I still have the hastily hand written version and will perhaps post it here once book three has been released. Nearly two decades later, it became a script for a television pilot that did fairly well in screenwriting contests and I even had the opportunity to pitch it to several production companies.

However, after many years spent addressing network notes as a television editor, trying to convince the gatekeepers of a moment or an entire story’s “worthiness” to an audience, I became disillusioned with the process… with always asking for permission. I realized much later than I wanted to that, for my own sanity and sense of personal fulfillment, I had to take back some measure of control and commit to creating a body of work that I could actually share with an audience. Most importantly, that I could do so in exactly the way that I want without needing the permission or approval of others.

I think it was the great robot philosopher Thomas Bangalter who once said, and I’m paraphrasing –

“Control is very difficult to keep, but it’s even more difficult to get back.”

So here I am and, thankfully, here you are. Like I said, I’d rather engage on a personal level, when possible, so if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out. And if you’d like to stay informed about release dates, pre-orders, and receive free novellas that connect to the larger series arcs (usually in-between sort of stories that fill in character backgrounds or were too much to be part of a full length book), please sign up for my mailing list by clicking on the ‘Free Stuff’ link.

All the best,

Frank