Screenwriter, Novelist, malcontent
Edward Savio
I grew up in a small town in Connecticut. After college, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. I was a ten-year overnight success, writing over a dozen scripts before getting my first major sale to a studio a decade after arriving in Hollywood. I would go on to sell five more to Disney and Sony Pictures and others.
I wrote my first novel, “Idiots in the Machine,” as an anti-screenplay, wanting to develop deeper characters and play with language.
After moving to San Francisco to start a family, the focus of my writing tipped toward novels.
Several years ago, I took a month-long trip to India. I came back and wrote the non-fiction, “Cloning Yourself For Fun and Profit,” which combines what I learned about using personal assistants from some of the top agents in Hollywood and the borderless/officeless work environments possible in the new economy. This led me to co-found PersonalFriday, which helps people get timeshared help.
For the past few years, I've been working on several projects which are finally coming to fruition. The incomparable Wil Wheaton has narrated the first two books in my Battle For Forever series. Volume 1, Alexander X came out June 5, 2019 and reached as high as #2 Overall on Audible and hit #1 in Fiction, #1 in Humor, and #1 in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Volume 2, Ancient Among Us was released a short time later and hit the top of the Science Fiction charts. In 2023, Volume 3, League of Auld dropped and hit #1 for Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Humorous Fiction New Releases and #2 for Adventure with the audiobook narrated by the great and powerful Ray Porter. It's been great working with my two favorite narrators and looking forward to finishing this ride with book four.
Let's see, what else? Oh yeah, I once nearly drove Val Kilmer over a cliff.