C.P. Mortensen is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer of film and television documentaries including The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling, and biographies of Mike Ditka, Antonin Scalia, O.J. Simpson, Andre the Giant, Halle Berry, Joe Cocker, Lyndon Johnson, Field Marshall Montgomery, Holly Hunter and Bodacious the Rodeo Bull.

Voodoo Ball is his first novel.