His other credits include film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including the New York Timesbestsellers Saving Private Ryanand American Gangster.

Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins; they write the Trash ‘n’ Treasures mystery series together as Barbara Allan. Their son Nathan, a University of Iowa graduate, has completed a year of post-grad studies in Japan, and spent much of 2007 working for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

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