Allen Rosenberg

Like a rolling stone gathering moss, Rosenberg gathered experience. He taught high school and middle school Art, worked as a YA Librarian. He worked as a head-hunter, a bartender, and owned a head shop owner during the volital 70's. Later, he owned an old time photo studio, worked as a Real Estate Agent, an electronics buyer for a chain of TV and Appliance stores, a Regional Sales Manager for a major electronics chain, a regional sales rep for a world class Japanese electronics company, a movie and video game distributor, a telemarketing call center manager, and the Moderator of the Silicon Valley Screenwriter's Group. He turned to writing novels full-time in 2009 and has not done an honest day's work since.

He was born the only child of parents considered way too old to have children or to control the one they had. He grew up a wild kid. He married his first wife a couple of months before graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art and Design. The marriage didn't last... fortunately.

In 1976 Rosenberg and a friend swapped tall tales and ripping yarns on a cross country road trip from San Francisco to Western New York. It was after that trip that he knew he wanted to be a writer. It took nearly thirty more years of tasting life before he could fulfill his dream but, what the hell, he did it.

He began by writing a dozen screenplays. He couldn't sell them. A good friend and published author encouraged him to refocus his skills on novel writing and he did and he was hooked. Eighteen months later FLOWER CITY BLUES was launched. The story is a funny, rousing, and sometimes poignant journey from innocence to experience. It's full of life, love, and adventure during the last flowering of the '60s, just before everything changed and passed from memory to myth.

Allen Rosenberg and his wife live in California's beautiful Valley of Hearts Delight a.k.a Silicon Valley.