He has published with Simon & Schuster (three novels) and Putnam/Berkley (two novels), with Beacon Press, Random House, St. Martin's Press and Pearson Educational. One of his novels became an ABC Sunday night Disney movie of the week. He has also contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Orange County Register, Writers Digest, CBS News, and many other outlets and publications. A former talk radio host and syndicated columnist, he is a member of the Massachusetts bar.

Michael's books have received outstanding reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, People Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Examiner, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, and other publications from coast to coast.

His articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Buzz Magazine, CBS News, the Jerusalem Post, and the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, among other places. One of his New York Times opinion pieces was anthologized in a college textbook on writing. He has served as a consultant on creativity to the NBC and WB Television Networks and to the largest law firm in Los Angeles, Loeb & Loeb; and as a faculty member at UCLA (1990-2001) and New York University (1997-2000).

He also consults to a broad variety of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to individuals seeking to become published authors. His clients and students include five bestselling authors. Among them: Patricia Aburdene (Megatrends and Reinventing the Corporation); Sheneska Jackson and Jenoyne Adams; and Maureen Quinn, who wrote a novel under his direction and sold screen rights to Janine Turner of TV's Northern Exposure, and many others who sold their novels-often their first novels-to major publishing houses.

Levin has also worked with individuals on a psychiatric unit (for two years); in hospitals, prisons and jails; in public schools across the country; and in a homeless shelter.

Bestselling author Scott Turow says, "Michael Levin is a discerning-and kind-writing coach who has won consistent plaudits from the many persons I've sent his way."

Dan Poynter, author of The Self-Publishing Manual, says, "Michael Levin shows writers exactly what they need to do to avoid rejection and find agents and publishers. I highly recommend him."

Lew Hunter, former chair of the UCLA Film Department, describes Levin as "the greatest developer of prose talent I have ever known."