Courtney Suttle travelled through time initially in the sixth grade while reading Mila 18, Leon Uris’ tale of the Jewish revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Uris’ masterful storytelling left the eerie impression that he, Suttle, had been present during the uprising. The haunting feeling he participated in the battle lingers to this day. Before finishing Mila 18, Suttle determined he would build his own time machine that would someday transport others to worlds he would construct out of ink, paper, and imagination.

A true son of Texas, Suttle left his hometown of Dallas upon graduation to attend Texas A&M University. He became a member of the world renowned Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band and enrolled in the United States Marine Corps ROTC program. Suttle excelled in Corps activities but couldn’t bring the same enthusiasm to the classroom. He earned A’s in freestyle writing exercises, but everything else bored him.

He left school in the middle of his sophomore year.

Barred from enlisting in the Marine Corps because of childhood asthma, Suttle answered an ad in the local paper and found himself employed as a bartender on Greenville Ave, the epicenter of night life in Dallas. He embraced the fast-paced, hard-drinking bartending cult of the late 70’s and early 80’s when cocaine defined the lifestyle. Soon he wasn’t reading about gangsters, drug dealers and other denizens that inhabited the crime novels he devoured--- he was rubbing elbows with them: making their drinks, lighting their cigarettes, laughing at their jokes. Many of the characters and stories he later wrote about in Liquid Dallas, Ghoster, and Pitch were based on his experiences during this period.

By the end of the 80’s, the glitz and glamour had faded. Instead of being a casual observer documenting his experiences in fictional stories, he crossed the line and embraced the life. The bright lights and loud music of Greenville Avenue’s dance clubs and live music joints were soon replaced by the steel door and concrete bunk of a solitary confinement cell in county jail. Suttle faced 10 years in prison. He’d become a character in one of his stories.

Four years removed from confinement, Suttle picked up his pen again and began writing. The resulting effort would be his first novel, Armageddon Chronicles - a Mafia Epic (Dageforde Publishing). The novel was his first time machine and it took thousands of readers back to the Russian revolution, the trenches of the Eastern Front in 1917 and the Buckingham Palace of King George VI.

During the resulting book tour, Suttle met several industry people in Hollywood who, after reading his book, convinced him to move to LA and try his hand at screenwriting. He then completed Extreme, a true story of the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, Liquid Dallas a dark tale of life in the bar business, and TriCKrOll a film noir set in present day Las Vegas. He has several other time machines nearing completion including Baghdad Blues, Rio Grande, and I, Vampire.

Recently, Suttle joined forces with Dreamhard Films. The first two projects in development are I Love You More, a short film inspired from Suttle’s first short story collection Prom Queen and Goat Boy – Stories of the Apocalypse and Lottery, a 10 webisode miniseries.

Suttle currently shares an apartment with his dark-half, Mordechai Stone, and the ghosts of his past somewhere in Los Angeles.

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