Music promoter and entrepreneur, freelance writer and author, former newspaperman and current dilettante, I write to entertain. I've published three books: ROCKIN' A HARD PLACE (Hub City Books), about my 20 years owning and buying talent for The Handlebar, a small concert venue in Greenville, S.C.; THE PLUNDER ROOM (St. Martin's Press), about honor, which is why it's fiction; and THE LUCIFER GENOME (Brigid's Fire Press), with Glen Craney, a religious conspiracy thriller.A sitcom based on ROCKIN' A HARD PLACE is in development, as is a play, THE LYNCHING, based on a celebrated murder trial in Greenville.I've worked as a reporter, editor and rewriteman at the Chicago Sun-Times, San Antonio Express-News and St. Petersburg Times, and I have a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. I've appeared on Oprah!. And I'm alive today, thanks to my brother's kidney, given to me in a transplant in 1984.