Michael Halperin

About Michael Halperin

Without informing me, a high school English teacher submitted a short story written as an assignment to a national magazine.  The magazine bought it and I received a check.  For a 15-year-old, that seemed like magic...and I was hooked. I kept writing and getting rejections.  In my last year of college, I wrote a comedy screenplay about one of my teachers.  Again, unknown to me, my publicist brother brought it to his studio.  It was optioned...never made, but I cashed the sizable check.  I spent 20 years writing TV, working on staff without a break.  It was enough.  Plays, novels, non-fiction drew me into new directions...although I kept a foot in media creating two animated TV series. writing a best-selling video game for which I won a 'Cybie' from the Academy of Interactive Arts &  Sciences.

BOOKS

My Name is David: Search for Identity

Fields of Poison: Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician

Black Wheels

Jacob's Rescue

Writing Great Characters

Writing the Second Act

Writing the Killer Treatment