Tell us about your writing background.

My first network job was on a show called Lois and Clark when it was in its last season.

The thing I did to get on that show was write a spec script. You write a sample episode of a show that you like, and try to write it well, so that you show that you can write episodic television.

I wrote a spec episode of The X Files and that got me onto Lois and Clark. Sometime during that year Chris Carter actually contacted me and said "Come and work on The X Files." So after Lois and Clark went off the air I went and worked at The X Files for a year, then after that I worked with a guy named Howard Gordon, who was also on The X Files, but not during the time that I was there.

He started up a show called Strange World which broadcast, I think, three episodes. We made thirteen of them, so if anyone wants to see them you can come to my house, I�ll screen them.

After that there were some offers. Angel was just getting started and David Greenwalt contacted me. We had met before, as I�d worked with John McNamara who had been one of David�s writing partners. They had created a show called Profit together, so David knew me through him and also through Howard Gordon.

When the opportunity came up to work with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt I leapt at that, in a Crouching Tiger kind of way so it was kind of slow motion. I've been here since the first year and now we�re going into the third season of Angel. It�s the best place ever to work.