About the Author

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Steven C. Vogel is an award-winning writer, editor, and creative director, whose commercial career spans thousands of assignments for major global brands, including IBM, Disney, Pratt & Whitney, and Dole Foods. Over the years, he has ghostwritten speeches for CEOs and politicians, interviewed hundreds of business figures worldwide, created national TV campaigns, and worked as a freelance journalist covering sports, finance, and health care.

      His corporate career took off when an ad agency asked him to write an annual report for a major corporation “in that voice—your fiction voice. Tell a story…” That assignment earned him the first of a dozen South Florida ADDY Awards and proved that compelling storytelling belongs everywhere. Later awarded the Hemingway Award for short fiction, Steven pairs a copywriter's instinct for brisk pacing  with a novelist’s eye for atmosphere and tension.

   The Ghost Writer is his debut psychological thriller, capturing both the tropical allure and darker undercurrents of the state he has called home for over five decades. When stepping away from thrillers and crime fiction, he explores teen friendship and coastal mystery-adventures in his upcoming YA sports series, beginning with Raising Sloop John B.

         A University of Florida alumnus with a degree in English Literature, Steven grew up on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale and Delray Beach before relocating up the coast to Northeast Florida, outside Jacksonville, where he lives with his wife, Lorraine, and their two cats.