I wrote the New York Times bestsellers COLUMBINE and PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.

This fall (2026), HarperCollins will publish my gay soldiers book, which I’ve been working on for 26 years. (11 concurrently with the other books, shadowing Army buddies ‘Brett’ and ‘Drake’ the whole time.) It’s the biggest project I’ll undertake in my life.
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DON'T FALL IN LOVE is the tumultuous story of two active duty combat arms soldiers fighting for love and happiness against all odds. They served 23 years and deployed to three wars in hiding — before, during, and after Don't Ask, Don't Tell. They're courageous, insightful and wickedly funny, and it's been one hell of a ride.*​

​Columbine won several major awards, including the Edgar, Goodreads Choice Award, and Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and made 2 dozen Best of 2009 lists. It made LA Times' list of the 30 best books of the last 30 years, and Slate's list of the best books of the last quarter century. It has been translated into nine languages, and named to a few dozen Best True Crime Books of All Time lists. It's fourth U.S. edition, the 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition, was published in April 2025, with a new preface.

​​I've worked on several TV project and sold one pilot to NBCUniversal, earning my WGA card. On the media side, I've written for New York Times, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, London Times, Politico, Guardian, Washington Post, New Republic, BuzzFeed, etc., and appeared on most of the major networks in the US, and across Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. I live in Chicago, where I'm uncle to 11 cool humans and 1 adorable corgi, Bobby Sneakers.

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* The gay soldiers book began as a magazine story in June 2000, that won the GLAAD Media Award for best online story of the year. To protect them from discharge, we named them Brett and Drake then and disclosed it in they story. They were never discovered. They'll reveal their identities in the book this fall.