Chris Cassone

"It’s 1974 and Amtrak hires a singer-guitarist to entertain the crush of families all heading south
to Florida’s newly opened Disneyworld and while he thinks this “gig of a lifetime” will launch
his career, he is really fleeing his overbearing Navy hero father, and postponing his girlfriend’s
desire to move in together. He boards the train just in time to witness the entire staff prepare for
the arrival of star passenger, David Bowie, who is afraid to fly."

My writing credits are a tad diverse: I am a songwriter first and recently wrote a hit song for good friend, KISS’ Ace Frehley’s top ten Billboard CD, “Space Invader.” Our latest has been recorded by Eric Church. Our musical, “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,” based on the 1961 B-horror flick just sold out the Charleston Music Hall and is coming to off-Broadway next year (I am solo composer on all 18 songs.) My novella, My Summer With The Beatles, has been optioned to Illuminate Pictures in Los Angeles. And I have had my short fiction published in esteemed boutique magazines such as The Iconoclast and The Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. You also might know me from this, this or this. The last link about my escapades on Amtrak in 1974 have been fashioned into an eight-episode limited series called “Off The Rails” requested by Lionsgate. ]

I am a healthy 72, run 10k’s and write all the time now that I am retired from corporate team building. I was Jesuit trained at Fordham Prep and College: BA English, MA English. Literature. . When not writing I can be found hiking the trails of Griffith Park in LA, writing songs and playing with my five grandchildren.