I was born in Los Angeles, California. My dad wrote
for the Daily Racing Form, and we traveled all over
the country when I was little, going from one
racetrack to another. When I was older I became
interested in music, and much of my work has been as a
songwriter, composer, and performer. In fact, my
novel The Gift Moves started out to be a song lyric!
My wife told me it sounded more like a story than a
song, and after that it just kept getting bigger.
Now I live in Lexington, Kentucky with my wife, George
Ella Lyon (who has written many books for children)
and our two sons, Benn and Joey. The Gift Moves is my
first novel and I'm hard at work on another one.