About Russ

Hey! I’m a writer by day, musician by night, and this is my website. I now live in Santa Barbara, but I grew up in Chicago. I’m currently writing a YA Mystery series about two accidental kid detectives who live in Chicago. That’s how this website got it’s name.

I’ve been writing about ten years now: novels, screenplays, and a travel memoir about learning Irish Traditional Folk Music while traveling in the West of Ireland: The Quiet Man Fiddles. Which you can read or purchase here:

My Screenwriting BA is from UC Santa Barbara and I was also chosen for the 2017-18 Writer’s Guild Veterans Writing Project. My WGA screenwriting mentors were Clay Frohman (Defiance), and Jorge Rivera (Unusual Suspects, Betrayed).