I'm a novelist and screenwriter who found my love of reading and writing through short fiction long ago, devouring stories by Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, and many others. I started writing when I was young, and, in my twenties, after 139 rejections, sold my first novel, Cloudburst, to William Morrow. Several novels followed, including October's Ghost, Capitol Punishment, Simple Simon, Top Ten, The Donzerly Li more...