Avant Guard

My name is Sherman, I am a writer living in the Vegas Valley in Southern Nevada. My area of fascination is creating action-adventure stories about men and women who live with risk.

I started as a storyteller for corporations and did brand development and strategic positioning for companies such as Symantec, Polaroid, Virginia Power, Cole Haan, Zildjian Cymbals, and The Harvard Business School. My career took me to design firms in Houston and Boston, then I opened my own firm as a cofounder of BrandTank in San Francisco.

I made a career change in 2001 to aviation. I built my flight time as a Ditch Dog flying Grand Canyon tours, flew corporate charters throughout the Southwest, and then moved onto jets. I hold multiple type ratings in turbo prop and turbo fan aircraft, and my total number of takeoffs matches my total number of landings--except for that one time.

In 2020 I enrolled in the College of Fine Arts, Department of Film, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and focused on screenwriting classes in the Graduate and Undergraduate Programs. I freelance as a photographer shooting Production Stills, and as a sound mixer doing Location Sound, to get production experience on set.

I write as much as I can now, it keeps me out of the heat.