I am not very good at self-promotion much to the disappointment of the IRS, my publisher and other for-profit organizations. I will say, I have published two novels, "Light of Day" and "The First Warm Evening of the Year" with William Morrow, was a two-time guest professor at Yale, recipient of the Poynter Fellowship, published short fiction in the Calypso Literary magazine, and non-fiction in several national magazines including PEOPLE and Playboy. I was born in the Bronx, NY, and now reside in an abandoned castle in Portugal leased to me by my cousin Stanley, the Duke of Earl, where I live on a diet on goats' milk and typos