Fred Holmes

THE UGLY TEAPOT is Fred Holmes’s first fiction novel, having previously ghost-written a nonfiction book, LETTERS FROM DAD, published by Thomas Nelson. He is known as a writer and director of films and television, working primarily in family films and children’s television. His work can be seen on Mary Lou Retton’s FLIP FLOP SHOP, BARNEY & FRIENDS, WISHBONE, HORSELAND, IN SEARCH OF THE HEROES, and many other shows, for which he has won two Emmys and three CINE Golden Eagles, among numerous other awards. He has also directed three feature films: DAKOTA, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, distributed by Miramax, HARLEY, also starring Lou Diamond Phillips, distributed by Lionsgate, and HEART LAND, a Bollywood feature film shot on location in India. He lives in the southwest United States.