Mike’s Bio

Mike Nettleton, author of Shotgun Start and co-author of The Big Grabowski and Sometimes a Great Commotion, grew up in Bandon and Grants Pass, Oregon.
A stint at a college station in Ashland led to a multi-state radio odyssey with on-air gigs in Oregon, California, and New Mexico under the air name Mike Phillips. In 1989 he returned to the Northwest and in 1994 joined KEX Radio in Portland. Recently retired, hobbies are golf, pool, Texas hold-em poker, and book collecting. Most recently he’s turned DRUM WARRIOR (Formerly THE HERMIT OF HUMBUG MOUNTAIN) into a screenplay and is busy honing his Academy Awards speech. Or, failing that an acceptance speech for the Ridley Garboon National self-delusion awards to be announced this fall.