Rich Leder
Novelist—Screenwriter
Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than two decades. His screen credits include 18 produced television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, and Left Bank Films.
He has written five funny novels published by Laugh Riot Press: McCall & Company: Workman’s Complication; McCall & Company: Swollen Identity; McCall & Company: Emboozlement; Juggler, Porn Star, Monkey Wrench; and Let There Be Linda.
He has been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the University of North Carolina Wilmington Film Studies Department, among other things, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill. He resides on the North Carolina coast with his awesome wife, Lulu, and is sustained by the visits home of their three college kids.