MICHAEL CRAVEN is an award-winning advertising writer, Creative Director and Executive Creative Director, and an acclaimed HarperCollins-published mystery novelist.
ADVERTISING
Freelance writer, CD and ECD for agencies and brands everywhere. Recognized by Cannes, the One Show, the Clios, the ANDYs, the Effies, the London International Awards and more.
Prior to his freelance career, he was a VP/CD at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, working on Microsoft, Burger King, Coke Zero and new business.
After Crispin, he was an ECD at KBS, part of the team running BMW and BMW Global. During this time, he was co-leading a creative department of 35+ people and helped BMW achieve the highest North American sales in the history of the company to date.
NOVELS
Michael has written four crime novels, The Detective & the Desert Sky, 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.
He lives and works in New York City.