Pierre Ouellette

Pierre Ouellette (aka Pierre Davis) entered the creative realm at age 13 as a lead guitarist for numerous bands in the Pacific Northwest, including the nationally known Paul Revere and the Raiders. He went on to play with such jazz luminaries as saxophonist Jim Pepper and bassist David Friesen, all the while composing soundtracks for short films and videos. To support his music habit, he became a freelance writer and eventually co-founded an advertising agency specializing in high technology, serving as its creative director. During this period, he wrote two novels, THE DEUS MACHINE and THE THIRD PANDEMIC, eventually published in seven languages and both optioned for film.

His third novel, A BREED APART, done under the pen name Pierre Davis, was published in 2009 to highly favorable reviews, followed by ORIGIN UNKNOWN, which explores the relationship between neurobiology and evil. In 2014, he returned to speculative fiction with the THE FOREVER MAN, a dystopian novel which accurately predicted the city of Portland's ongoing struggle with political riots, rampant crime, and a massive homeless population.

He then leveraged his musical background to write BAKERSFIELD, HAIGHT STREET, and A SHOT AWAY, a series of historical crime stories set in the California rock scene between the mid-50's and the early 70's. Along the way, he directed and produced THE LOSERS CLUB, a documentary about struggling musicians, which was broadcast on public television and exhibited at numerous film festivals.

His current novel, BABY ZERO, due for release this summer, explores the catastrophic consequences of a precipitous decline in the global population brought on by a convolution of chemical and biological phenomena.

Pierre lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon and still plays an occasional jazz guitar gig, when he feels his chops are up to it.