Living in the Bird Streets is...
deadly.
Upcoming Novel
(Completed Manuscript)
Jay Crew writes heroes for a living. His adrenalized action franchise centers on a one-man force of nature who chases down killers and walks into danger without blinking. Jay, on the other hand, has spent his life avoiding confrontation, burying fear and regret beneath clever dialogue and third-act explosions.
He never imagined finding his own happy ending—until he met Aidan—kind, grounded, steady in a way that made the chaos of Jay’s early life feel far away.
Until it didn’t.
Aidan fell for someone else—or maybe two someones: a glamorous gay couple whose Century City penthouse he was building out. They hadn’t even moved in yet, but Aidan had apparently moved on.
Jay tries to believe it was bound to happen—that this is just what men do.
Then one afternoon, he comes home to find police crawling through his place in the Hollywood Hills. There’s been a break-in. Almost nothing is missing—except a single photograph. A memory that meant nothing to anyone but him and Aidan.
Jay’s sure Aidan took it. But when he tries to confront him, he finds something far worse: Aidan has vanished—and he didn’t go willingly.
To find out what really happened to the person he thought he knew best, Jay will have to go places he’s spent his life avoiding. He’ll have to stop writing heroes—and finally become one.
About
I grew up in New York and moved to Los Angeles chasing one goal: making a living using my wit. That quest led me from writing game-show questions to crafting Disney movie trailers. After my ninth TV spec script, I landed my first staff gig on Dear John starring Judd Hirsch, kicking off a twenty-five‑year career writing and producing series including The Fresh Prince of Bel‑Air and Queer as Folk. I also served as a showrunner and brought two series to network television—co-creating Too Something and developing Party Girl, based on the hit indie film.
Now fully committed to novel writing, I’m at work on my fifth standalone literary thriller. My stories center on characters who don’t give up—who stumble, fight, change, and grow. Like me, they know something about second chances. I write from a life shaped by more than forty years of sobriety and the roles I’m most proud of as a gay man: husband, father of two, and a steady hand in a world that’s never quite the dream getaway the brochure promised.
My writing lives somewhere near the intersection of literary thrillers and heart—as if Harlan Coben and Ruth Ware sat down to craft a gripping plot, invited Andrew Sean Greer to sprinkle in humor and charm, and somehow Brené Brown wandered in with coffee and arsenic, gently reminding everyone to be brave.
Agent
Victoria Skurnick
Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency
