He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University majoring in English. After graduating in 1996, he began his career as a New York City-based publicist working on numerous public relations campaigns and events in the fashion and entertainment industries.

In 2004, he moved to Los Angeles and began writing full time. In 2009 St. Martin's Press published A Novel centered around Taylor Green, a young man from the Midwest, who stumbles into New York without a clue or a contact and later is hired by the outrageous, Jennifer Weinstein, the city's most notorious public relations diva .

His second novel, Waxed will be released in the summer of 2010.