S.G. “Scott” Browne is an American author of dark comedy and social satire.

Big Egos is about a drug that lets the user become an authorized fictional character or dead celebrity for 6–8 hours and a quality assurance employee who takes on an unsafe number of artificial identities.

In 1992, Browne moved to Santa Cruz, California, where he lived for fourteen years writing novels and short stories while working as an office manager.

[3] Soon after its release, the film rights for Breathers were optioned by Fox Searchlight Studios to be produced by Diablo Cody.

It features a story of a private detective with the ability to steal other people's luck with a simple handshake.