After working at daily newspapers in
Colorado, Reavill moved to New York in 1981. Among his jobs in the early 1980s was ghostwriting for
Al Goldstein, publisher of
Screw magazine. Out of that experience grew his non-fiction book
Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough. In addition, Reavill wrote several plays produced in
off-off-Broadway venues throughout the 1980s. Many of Reavill's true-crime articles appeared in
Maxim from 1998 to 2004. His non-fiction books include
Aftermath: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home and ''Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem And Save Girls' Lives'', penned with his wife
Jean Zimmerman. Beginning in 2002, a writing partnership with Eric Saks yielded the screenplay for the film
Dirty and several other optioned or in-development screenplays.
Dirty, directed by
Chris Fisher, premiered at the 2005
American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles and stars
Cuba Gooding, Jr.,
Clifton Collins, Jr.,
Wyclef Jean and Taboo of
The Black Eyed Peas. Reavill's ghostwriting collaborations include projects with
Terri Irwin, the widow of
Steve Irwin (
Steve & Me: Life with the Crocodile Hunter),
Tiki Barber (
Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond) and
Jerry Heller (
Ruthless: A Memoir). He and Zimmerman were credited pseudonymously as Carol Calef on
Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith,
David Smith's account of the 1994 murders of his sons, Michael and Alex. The August 2005 issue of
American Songwriter magazine profiled Reavill as a song lyricist. == List of works ==