From 1980 through 1994, I was a renowned fashion makeup and hair artist who took a captivating journey through the 80's and 90's countercultural epochs of high fashion, where I got an intimate glimpse into the glamorous but tumultuous world of the industry. While others spiraled into expensive rehabs, I took notes. After two decades of journaling, I have sharpened my pencil to take you to the darker and brighter sides of the radical wave of the hedonistic Sex, Drug, and Rock and Roll era of the 1980s and early 90s. Studio 54, Area, Danceteria, and Paris' Le Bain Douche were the epicenters of this glamorous chaos, where agents exploited underage models and fees for paradigmatic photographers, models and makeup artists fees skyrocketed. Linda Evangelista's infamous declaration, "We don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day," epitomized the excess of the time.

In my published novel, Sixty Hours ’Til Sunset, Mackey McGillacutty suffers a devastating loss as a teenager—a mystery he will spend twenty-five years trying to understand. He becomes Mackey McGill, one of the world’s most celebrated fashion photographers, but success cannot answer the questions that have followed him since his youth. In the final sixty hours of his life, a bundle of letters threatens to reveal the truth he has spent decades trying to find.

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