About Me
I have published two novels in the humorous mythic fiction series, The Water Nymph Gospels. Book 1: Fate Accompli was a 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Best Book of the Year (Humor). Book 2: Life Indigo is a third edition of my 2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Fantasy). I also have published in the Stonecoast Review (Pushcart-nominated), Running Wild Press, Defenestration, The Satirist, and The Rumpus. After a long career at the Federal Trade Commission, I joined a non-profit focused on improving the advertising landscape for children. I earned my B.A. in philosophy and J.D. from the University of Michigan. I live in Kensington, Maryland.
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I live in Kensington, Maryland with his wife, Laura, also a Michigan alum, and their dogs Lulu and Archie, who sadly remain illiterate. Their adult son Stoney is a computer software engineer in New York City. Their beloved daughter Bay passed away in 2021. Her fighting spirit and offbeat sense of humor continue to inspire.
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Keith was an avid baseball card collector as a kid. His most treasured cards date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries — hence, his cheap attempt at baseball card fan fiction pictured left.
About Life Indigo
The expanded third edition of Kasper Mützenmacher's Cursed Hat, a 2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Fantasy)
Kasper Mützenmacher spends his days making custom hats and his nights basking in Berlin’s sparkling cabaret scene. But his world shatters in a cymbal crash when his flapper girlfriend Isana is kidnapped by the notorious Klaus, a shadowy proto-Nazi who renders his victims blind to their own faces.
With no other way to save Isana, Kasper turns to his family’s most precious secret: a teleportation hat stolen from Hermes long ago. Although the brazen rescue succeeds, Kasper now has a target on his back.
Klaus will use his dark and twisted methods to infiltrate Kasper’s life and uncover the miracle behind the escape. And should the Stealer of Faces get his hands on Kasper’s hat, the world will be at his disposal.
Life Indigo: Book 2 of The Water Nymph Gospels is a funny, noirish, mythic whirlwind through Berlin's Jazz Age, the rise of fascism, and a cursed family's harrowing quest for freedom.
About Fate Accompli
Fate had one job. And she bungled it . . . badly.
Now only a cursed hatter and a tormented water nymph can fix the damage.
Tuscany, 1603. Andolosia Petasos dreams of becoming the next da Vinci. Unfortunately, Fate has cursed him to make hats.
It’s not Andolosia’s fault his Greek ancestor stole Hermes’ teleportation cap and brought down the wrath of Olympus. The gods frown on that sort of thing.
Andolosia’s fortunes take a startling turn after the eccentric Sansone de Medici commissions an unusual hat for his opera. While delivering the finished piece, Andolosia discovers that his benefactor is possessed by the god Apollo. Worse, Sansone has captured the belligerent yet beguiling Carlotta Lux, a descendant of the water nymph Daphne. Unless Andolosia intervenes, Sansone will ravish her that very night.
Andolosia uses Hermes’ hat to whisk Carlotta away. Driven by a supernatural compulsion, Sansone pursues the fugitives to Sicily. There, the star-crossed pair must prepare for a divine confrontation, armed only with a dubious prophecy and a growing romance.
This expanded, second edition of Fate Accompli is Book 1 of The Water Nymph Gospels, a humorous work of mythic fiction and a Foreword INDIES Finalist in the Humor category.
Book Trailers
Other Publications
​Short Stories
The Ark (3rd Place, 2018 Bethesda Magazine Fiction Contest)
World War I enemies find a common bond during a battle with biblical consequences.
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Non Compos Mentis, Stonecoast Review Issue 6 (2016) (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
A ghost has sued the estate of a deceased werewolf. Now a judge must settle the dispute.
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Exodus, Running Wild Press Anthology of Stories, Vol. 1 (2017)
A Brooklyn transplant follows his beloved Dodgers to L.A. and then unexpectedly reunites with his boyhood crush.
Humor & Satire
Amazon Prime’s Dating Marketplace for the Socially Inept [beta] (Defenestration Magazine)
Sonny and Me: A Watermelon Picker’s Fond Missives to a Very Special Plutocrat (The Satirist)
A migrant farmworker thanks the federal government for allowing farms to pay workers in produce instead of cash.
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Instagram Reels
​Video shorts​ touching all things absurd and philosophical — a minute or less of pure stupidity that you will never get back.
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