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- About Me:
- Born and raised inside San Francisco, I graduated from Lowell High School and received my B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley. After two years in the Army, I went to graduate school at San Jose State where one of my short stories was published in the college’s literary magazine, THE REED, and won the following awards in the annual SENATOR PHELAN LITERARY CONTEST: 1st & 2nd in Plays; 1st & 2nd in Essays; 1st & 3rd in Free Verse.
After teaching English and Creative writing at Los Gatos Union High School, I moved to southern California and began my professional writing career. I sold to the TV series, MR. NOVAK, ghosted YOUR HAIR AND YOUR DIET for health food guru, Dan Dale Alexander, and wrote for and with diverse producers, among them as Harry Joe Brown, Sig Schlager, Albert J. Cohen, and Al Ruddy as well as Paul Stader Sr., dean of Hollywood stuntman and stunt/2nd unit director. Also, options were taken on my unpublished WWII fighter ace novel and several treatments.
While living in Hollywood, I married Ellen, who is from Brazil, and I taught creative writing and Advanced placement European History at Fairfax High School where I also was Social Studies Department Chairman. After living in Florianópolis, Brazil, setting of A GATHERING OF VULTURES, we moved to Florida where I wrote as a with: VITAMIN ENRICHED, pub.1999, for Carl DeSantis, founder of Rexall Sundown Vitamins; and THE COUPLE’S DISEASE, Finding a Cure for Your Lost “Love” Life, pub. 2002, for Lawrence S. Hakim, MD, FACS, Head of Sexual Dysfunction Unit at the Cleveland Clinic.
Currently, we reside in Winter Haven, Florida. My magnum opus historical novel, ROCAMORA, set in 17th century Spain and Amsterdam during their Golden Ages, will be published by LIGHTNING RIDER PRESS in 2008, and I am polishing another dark novel and short stories for anthologies.
- Website:
- http://www.donaldmichaelplatt.com
- Published Novels
- A GATHERING OF VULTURES, 2007
ROCAMORA, set in 17th century Spain and Amsterdam to be released in the summer of 2008
- Favourite Books
- Anything written by Sabatini, Costain, Shellabarger, Dunnett, early Yerby, SHOGUN, I CLAUDIUS, and too many other historical novels to name here.
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Brian
It seems we share several types of experiences. My best friend in Hollywood went to mainland China in 1992 at age 66 to teach conversational English. He met and married a 5'8" 22 year old daughter of a PRC brigadier general. He brought her to the USA, she went to college, became a CPA and now owns property in Shanghai. Where do you live now in the Bay Area?
My wife defeats me 60% of the time.
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