About

When I was 5 years old, my dad told me that I would become a writer, and he was not the kind of guy to argue with. He gave me and my sister writing or art assignments, and the only one I remember is a poem I wrote about a frog with gastro-intestinal problems.

I went to journalism school and became a newspaper reporter, photographer, and newspaper section editor. My first magazine job was as editor of a city restaurant magazine in Vancouver. Then I moved to the US  and went to journalism school again, becoming the editor-in-chief of two magazines and executive editor of another. My last full-time job was as editor-in-chief of an electronic publishing company, Books That Work.

Since 1996, I’ve been self-employed as a writing coach, editor, writer and teacher. I missed working with writers so much that I became a writing coach, specializing in food. I’ve gone back to food writing, doing reviews, chef profiles, regular columns and recipes. And I’ve written two books: Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction, and More; and Grilled Pizzas and Piadinas,  co-authored with chef Craig Priebe.

For more, please see my bio.

Comment policy: I love to receive comments. They are the best part of my blog. Here’s the thing: I’m an editor, so I will edit comments with typos, grammatical errors, and misspellings. I will also delete comments that I decide have no value to readers of my blog.