Brendon Macaraeg's Crimespace Space...

I moved to New York City after graduating from college in the Midwest in 1991 and thereafter began working in book and magazine publishing. I was a fact-checker and staff writer at PC Magazine (Ziff-Davis Publishing) which was at the time THE monster PC publication -- when I joined the editorial staff the average issue was 350 pages! It's now a paltry 64-70 (if that).

I turned to screenwriting as a serious creative outlet in 1999 when I left the craziness of the Dot-Com(bomb) World in the San Francisco Bay Area. I lived in the City by the Bay from 1996 to 1999 and relocated to Los Angeles in 2000 where I currently reside. Somehow I ended up a direct marketer as my day job, but would eventually love to leave the corporate grind and write fulltime. If James Patterson can do it, I can! (seriously, I know it's a dream, but we all need our dreams to keep us going....)

Screenwriting led me to short stories and fiction -- sometimes a script treatment lends itself more to the short story format rather than a screenplay.

I'm currently writing a script under the auspices of a "first-look" deal with Terra Firma Films on the NBC-Universal lot. I was part of their "Emerging Writer's Program" -- email if you live in L.A. and want more info on that.
No guarantee anything will happen with that I'm also working on a crime book set in modern day L.A. Don't have a literary agent yet, but might just go the self-publishing route to see how that goes instead.

I also write short stories, but these tend to be more along the lines of "literary fiction" and not crime/thriller oriented.

Look forward to discussion about writing, the writing life and getting published with fellow Crimespace writers!

Best regards,
-Brendon