Odyssey began playing guitar and piano at age thirteen. Two years later he wrote his first novel. At nineteen he moved from his home town of
Bakersfield, California to
Santa Barbara, California. There he joined the Ensemble Theatre Company, a professional theatre company where he worked as an actor, artistic director's assistant, sound designer, and composer. In 2000 Odyssey began working with film music composers
Reinhold Heil,
Johnny Klimek, and Bruce Winter, to create the soundtracks for films such as
Blood & Chocolate (2007),
Land of the Dead (2005),
The Cave (2005),
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005),
Iron Jawed Angels (HBO) (2004), as well as the score for
Deadwood (HBO) (2006), and
Without A Trace (CBS) (2002). In 2011 Odyssey published his first middle-grade/young-adult novel,
The Wizard of Dark Street: an Oona Crate Mystery (Egmont USA, 2011). The book was a top 20 ABC New Voices selection from the
American Booksellers Association and was subsequently nominated for both an
Edgar Award and an
Agatha Award. His second published novel, ''The Magician's Tower
(a sequel to The Wizard of Dark Street''), was published in February 2013. ''The Magician's Dream'', the third book in the Oona Crate Mystery series, had been scheduled for release on June 23, 2015, by Egmont USA. However, since Egmont's American publishing division shut down in January 2015, ''The Magician's Dream'' was first published on July 14, 2015, as an ebook with Amazon. == Novels ==