Biography

            When one works for cocaine trafficers
           as a hairdresser, you can call yourself a
                            Mafia Hairdresser
And that is also the name of my first novel of what I call "The Hairdresser Chronicles." Mafia Hairdresser is a humorous fictional account of a young ambitious hairdresser who ends up moonlighting for a family who supply drugs to the Hollywood elite. Fortunately, the real me escaped from servitude to a mob couple, but I had to resort to blackmail, drugs and possibly accidental manslaughter to be able to write about it. It was the 80's and I was stupid but I'm alive today and I became a writer. Mafia Hairdresser is avalable on all eBook formats. 
                            The Glow Stick Gods
Book two is also inspired by true events, including Chicago Mayor Daley's war on drugs, the celebrity circuit, and Michael Jackson (not the celebrity), the man who killed a cab driver with his own cab. (Yes, I knew him.)  Lots of up-close "research" went into this book & I lost a few friends to the 90's party scene. Sometimes being in the fun place at the wrong time can make you an accomplice--and an insider.
                    Murder, There's an App for That
Book three is writing itself now: Chicago, Credit Card Debt, the dark side of Social Networking, Stalkers, and Murder by iphone App. Based on true stories and events such as the murder one of my best friends.

Anyhoo, I'm from L.A. area and now I live in Chicago and I'm an actual hairdresser at Joseph Michael's Salon & Spa Thank you to all of my clients who Yelped or City Searched me to the top.

I trained at Second City and did a few plays, parade commentary, tv cable specials for charities.

I wrote and sold one screenplay. Then I wrote the play version to help get the screenplay made into a movie, which never happened. The play was a sellout for six weeks though.

Humor is good. It coats the cognitive palate so that the serious and scary can be digested more easily.
That's why most of my writing has a laugh or two in it, even if what I am writing is serious. 

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