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| - Throughout my life I’ve held a wide variety of jobs: grocery sacker, your basic burger-flipper, limo driver, tele-researcher (if I disturbed your dinner during the month of August, 1990, I deeply apologize), photographer, and writer. Happily, I’ve managed to make a career out of the last one.
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| - Throughout my life I’ve held a wide variety of jobs: grocery sacker, your basic burger-flipper, limo driver, tele-researcher (if I disturbed your dinner during the month of August, 1990, I deeply apologize), photographer, and writer. Happily, I’ve managed to make a career out of the last one. However, before writing professionally (I’ve written most of my life just no one thought to pay me for it), I joined the entertainment industry by becoming a special effects assistant working on commercials, movies, and television shows. My friend and roommate at the time, Bob Trevino,was just beginning his career in special effects and often brought me along when they needed an extra pair of hands. Well, making fire, rain, and generally blowing stuff up turned out to be quite a fun job, if you can imagine. It didn’t hurt that people in the film community are some of the best people with which to work. Later he was given the opportunity to work in the prop department on a new PBS show called Wishbone. While working the first season, he wrote a couple of spec scripts for the show and when the second season rolled around, I was asked to co-write an episode. He later became a staff writer and even co-wrote Showtime’s feature-length presentation, Wishbone’s Dog Days of the West (Here I am playing a small role in the Wishbone episode I co-wrote: War of the Noses–photo by Carol Kaelson). Near the end of the series, I met the editor of the Wishbone books, Kevin Ryan. A talented writer himself, Kevin gave me the opportunity to write four Wishbone novels and taught me many things about writing books for young readers. It’s not always easy to keep things straight when the main character in your book is a dog who imagines himself to be heroes from classic literature. In fact, if you’re a fan of the show, he recommend picking up any of the books in the series (not just mine). Kevin did a great job editing and pulling together a host of talented authors to tackle the job.
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