Michael grew up in the suburbs of New York City on Long Island. He has a twin brother, Elliott, and an older brother, Harry. After graduating from the University of Buffalo he earned his master's degree in education at Washington University, St. Louis. When he moved to Los Angeles, he continued his education and earned another master's degree in Reading. He became interested in writing during his days in Buffalo writing reports for his history professor, Dr. David Abosch. While working for a private company in L.A. developing educational materials, he wrote a short story. His boss thought it was more of a treatment for a novel. Years later "The Light: An Alien Abduction" was published.

Michael is the author of two novels, "The Legend of Koolura" and "The Light: An Alien Abduction." The former won the Word Weaver's Award for Excellence. He has won the 73rd Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition and the Twelfth Annual Stepping Stone Children's Writer's Competition. He has had over 50 articles published in local and national magazines.

Michael is a certificated reading specialist and teacher in California.

Michael has had articles published in Wonder Years, SIGNews, The Jewish Journal, Smithsonian's Kids' Castle, Writer's Digest, and Highlights for Children. Michael's newest book, "Good-Bye Tchaikovsky" will be published by Royal Fireworks Press March 2011.

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Vice Principal Brett Castille hates rainy days because he’s responsible for unsupervised classes. And on this day Allison Park is late. His ensuing conversations with Allison lead to revelations regarding missing bits of memory going back twenty years. At the end of this day Brett will have a mystery solved that has been bothering him since childhood. He’ll know why he lost his memory after watching an old lady race snails on her porch. He’ll understand the significance of the mysterious orange light that caused her schizophrenic personality to suddenly change. And why that seemingly uneducated old woman could become a principal of a school, over night. This rainy day detective work unravels the truth, which becomes his downfall. Proving, rainy days and Mondays aren’t much fun when an intergalactic intelligence invades your school.

The Light: An Alien Abduction
The Light: An Alien Abduction is a science fiction love story. It’s a 245-page account of an abduction of a human by an alien race who justifies their act in an attempt to save their people trapped on a dying planet. Lewis finds himself in a world dominated by women, and men are subjugated to their whims. He learns from an alluring alien woman that her matriarchal society may relocate on Earth. To survive space flight rigors, Lewis buffs up. His changed attitude opens a love relationship with the most powerful woman on Oceana. He explores alien worlds, uncovers genocide on a planetary scale, and is thrust into extraterrestrial politics that decides the fate of an Earth on the brink of war or unification