Larry Brill grew up in San Jose, California with three goals: To become a broadcast journalist; to write a hit novel; and to pitch for a major league baseball team. Well, two out of three isn t bad. He spent 25 years as a television news anchor and reporter in four states, picking up numerous awards along the way.

After leaving the business to set up his own video and marketing consulting business, Larry penned his first novel, Live At Five, a gentle lampooning of TV news as we know it today. His second novel The Patterer, carries that theme back in time, to imagine the hilarious possibilities of how today s news clichés might look to an audience in 18th century London.