ADVERTISING
Michael Craven is a freelance advertising writer and creative director. He’s worked at some of the most creative agencies in the world, and has won numerous industry awards.
Prior to his freelance career, he was a VP/CD at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, working on Microsoft, Burger King, Coke Zero and more. After Crispin, he was an ECD at KBS, part of the team running BMW and BMW Global.
NOVELS
Michael has written three crime novels, all published by HarperCollins: The Detective & the Pipe Girl, The Detective & the Chinese High-Fin and Body Copy.
He has been nominated for the Nero Wolfe Award honoring excellence in mystery fiction, and has twice been nominated for the Shamus Award for best P.I. novel of the year.
The Detective & the Pipe Girl was the #1 selling P.I. novel on Amazon two different times, besting over 20,000 titles in one of the most competitive and popular categories of Amazon Charts.
His next novel is finished and will be out in 2026. He lives and works in New York City.