I was born and raised in Little Italy on the East Side of Vancouver. In my teens we moved to the small town of White Rock on the US border and I met Art Bergmann, which led to 15 years of playing music for a living and generally acting in a shameful and often legally actionable manner. I retired from the stage in my early 30s and began writing. For 15 years I was a reporter and columnist for the Vancouver Sun, covering crime, politics, theatre, music and science. In 2001 I left the paper to write full-time and have published two books since, with six more in varying stages of pre-publication. Guilty of Everything, a memoir of the Vancouver punk scene, is still in pre-production as a feature film, forever. In 2017 i published A Series of Dogs, a remembrance of the dogs in my life, Coming sometime in the next year or two are The Circle of St. George, a fantasy set in WW2 Britain. Mob Rule, an alt-history satire, and Sugar, a dystopian- future drug novel. Schadenfreude, in which alien tourists come to Earth to witness our atrocities and horrors. (Yeah, that will shoot to the top of the charts ...... but what are you gonna do? You write what you write, and you see what happens.) Currently finishing up Plague House: The Haunting of Fairacres, a supernatural story based on true events, and a final non-fiction book - The back Nine: A Gentleman's Guide to Growing Old. Modernettes have an album coming out this year called Welcome to Happy Town