Introduction to Me

My name is Michael Klein, (hence the cryptic blog name), and I am a writer. Now anybody with a crayon and a scrap of paper can call himself a writer—and while I do have crayons (I’m sure my two little girls would share), and plenty of scraps of paper—I have actually been writing and being paid for it for 16 years.

The thing is, I’ve been writing as other people, and now I’m going to start writing as me. It’s not that I use a pseudonym, I don’t. I have been writing words for other people to take as their own—as a press secretary and speech writer for Members of Congress from Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida and elsewhere; as a spokesman, writer, and speech writer for a state government agency; and as a spokesman, writer, and speech writer for a national environmental trade association in Washington, DC.

I have written and delivered speeches as me on topics such as environmental laws and regulations, environmental activism, marketing and advertising message and public opinion research, and advocacy and the legislative process.

Okay, time to clear the air. I just reread the above it makes me sound like something I am not. In pursuit of Truth in Advertising I should stress that the Members of Congress for whom I worked were all Republican. And the environmental trade association for which I worked was on the business side of the equation—the national trade association for the forest products industry.

Still here? Great. I admire your curiosity—morbid though it may be.

I’ve also written numerous (unproduced, unsold) screenplays—and am now hard at work on a novel for young adults, a few new screenplays, and some spec magazine articles.

I’m going to use this blog to post writing samples of existing work and also to post new material I plan on writing as me and only me.

Please feel free to leave me feedback on me or anything I’ve written. Thanks for visiting and comm with you soon.

Michael