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Lane Shefter Bishop is a multi-award winning producer and director who spent nearly a decade working in motion picture development at Walt Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures, among others. Ms. Bishop has received numerous accolades for her work including an EMMY, three Telly Awards, a Videographer Award, a Sherril C. Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a New York Festivals Award and the DGA Fellowship Award for Episodic Television.
Ms. Bishop began her work in the industry at Moxie Productions, where she produced and directed projects for such networks as ABC, Showtime, HBO and MTV. Since then, Ms. Bishop has directed numerous television shows and five feature-length motion pictures. Her favorite project is the feature film THE DAY LABORERS (Los Jornaleros), which received Official Selection in Edward James Olmos' LA Latino Int’l Film Festival , Cine Accion (San Fran), OutFest (Hollywood), Reel Affirmations (Wash DC), NewFest (NY) as well as the Milan International Film Festival (Italy). The film was distributed through both HBO and Blockbuster.
Ms. Bishop is also the former EVP of Motion Pictures and Television at TwinStar Entertainment, where she worked for two years as a director and producer as well as being in charge of all creative development. Currently, Ms. Bishop is CEO of Vast Entertainment, a book-to-screen company with numerous projects already in development, including the feature films THE DUFF (Wonderland/McG), HEMLOCK (Wonderland/McG & Weed Road/Akiva Goldsman) and GHOST KEEPERS (Out of The Blue Productions/Sid Ganis); MOWs such as THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT, OPERATION MARRIED BY CHRISTMAS [with LeAnn Rimes], and DATING THE DEVIL (all at ABC Family) and FRINGE GIRL (Disney Channel); and television series including HIZZHONOR BUZZY YOUNG (Cineflix), THE SAVANNAH REID MYSTERIES (Lifetime), HALFLINGS (Weed Road/Akiva Goldsman) and a new UNTITLED TV SERIES with Scott Stuber. Additionally, Ms. Bishop just co-produced the feature film WEAPON for MPCA.
Ms. Bishop holds a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Barbara and an M.F.A. in Production from USC's School of Cinema/Television. She is a director-member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Rich Devin
I traveled the United States, Canada and Mexico facilitating negotiating workshops and seminars to “Fortune 500” company executives and Don’t Say Yes – Negotiate! (Multi-Media Publications 2011) is the result of working with negotiators from all walks of life and from all levels of expertise. It is their real world experience that led to its writing.
As a Theatrical Talent Agent and Talent Manger in Los Angeles, my client list included Academy Award, Grammy and Emmy Award winning and nominated actors and performers. I now live in Las Vegas working as a gaming executive for Caesars Entertainment. I am a contributing writer for Southern Nevada Equestrian and Envy Man magazines and the published author of two business books to the showbiz trade, Actors’ Resumes: The Definitive Guidebook (Players Press, 2002) and Do You Want To Be An Actor? 101 Answers to Your Questions About Breaking Into the Biz (Players Press/Entertainment Marketing Company, 2002), as well as a produced playwright, My Mother’s Coming (Money Shot Productions, Hollywood CA) and an optioned screenwriter. My children's series, The Pandamonia Pandas is available at Amazon.com for Kindle and ebook readers.
Andrew Grant
Andrew was born in Birmingham, England in May 1968. He went to school in St Albans and attended the University of Sheffield where he studied English Literature and Drama. After graduation Andrew set up and ran a small independent theatre company. Following a critically successful appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Andrew moved into the telecommunications industry as a ‘temporary’ solution to a short-term cash crisis. Fifteen years later, Andrew became the victim / beneficiary of a widespread redundancy programme. Freed once again from the straight jacket of corporate life, he took the opportunity to answer the question, what if … ? Andrew is married to novelist Tasha Alexander, and divides his time between Chicago and the UK.
Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major (with a concentration in Medieval Studies) in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, divide their time between Chicago and the UK.
Harley Jane Kozak
Harley is the youngest of eight children born to Joseph and Dorothy Kozak, an attorney and a music teacher, respectively, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. When Joe died a year after her birth, Dorothy packed up the children and moved first to North Dakota and then to Nebraska, to teach at the University in Lincoln.
Harley's first stage appearance was at age five in a college opera production of Dido and Aneas. In the fourth grade, she broke gender barriers playing the title character in Benjamin Franklin, and the following year discovered the joys of nepotism, performing on the educational TV show, Music With Mrs. Kozak.
In high school she was tap dancing with the Nebraska Repertory Theater, and the summer after her senior year, supported herself full-time with a whopping $55-a-week paycheck earned playing Indian Maiden #2 in The Legend of Daniel Boone in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
With thirty-some plays to her credit, Harley at age 19 headed for the Big Apple and into the professional acting program at NYU's School of the Arts (now Tisch School of the Arts). After completing the program, she was cast in the feature film The House on Sorority Row. This enabled her to retire her waitress shoes.
Then came a trio of principle roles in soaps—Texas, Guiding Light and Santa Barbara—that came to a smashing halt when Harley's final character (a nun) was crushed to death by the giant neon letter "C." But that "C" gig had gotten her to L.A., where she went on to star in feature films and prime time television programs. Ten years later she began to write novels, have babies and acquire dogs, cats, fish, and rabbits—and the rest, as they say, is history.
Harley currently lives with her family in Southern California, where she's working on an international thriller. Meanwhile, she's added teaching, blogging and public speaking to her resumé, exploiting her checkered past.
Helen A. Rosburg
Who am I? Hmmmmmm....well I do a lot of things.
I write books. I founded a publishing company and a media group and am CEO of both. I am President and executive editor of the publishing house, Medallion Press.
I show horses.
I raise German Shepards for personal protection, the military, police, etc.
I rescue animals and live on a farm so I can save a lot! I have pigs, chickens, goats, cattle, horses, donkeys, rabbits, dogs, cats, exotic birds-you name it!
These things are what I am.
A Christian.
A wife and mother with three kids and 3 grandkids.
A grammar geek.
A real friend to a small number of people.
A passionate supporter of our police, troops and firefighters.
Animal lover.
I personally don't care for rambling bios so check out my site helenrosburg@aol.com.
F. PAUL WILSON
F. Paul Wilson is the award-winning, bestselling author of forty books and nearly one hundred short stories spanning science fiction, horror, adventure, medical thrillers, and virtually everything between. His novels The Keep, The Tomb, Harbingers, and By the Sword appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. The Tomb received the 1984 Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books; Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award. His novella “Aftershock” won a Stoker Award. He was voted Grand Master by the World Horror Convention and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers of America. He also received the prestigious Inkpot Award and is listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America.
Over eight million copies of his books are in print in the US and his work has been translated into twenty-four languages. He also has written for the stage, screen, and interactive media. His latest thrillers, Bloodline and By the Sword, star his urban mercenary, Repairman Jack. His third collection of short fiction, Aftershock & Others, was published in March. Jack: Secret Histories recently kicked off a young-adult series starring a fourteen-year-old Jack. Paul resi des at the Jersey Shore and can be found on the Web at www.repairmanjack.com.
Kathy Love
I started writing romances when I was in junior high. The heroines were my friends and the heroes were guys you may have heard of such as the Beatles, the Monkees and other various rock stars and actors. I even wrote a romance where Steven Tyler of Aerosmith was the hero and worked at a carnival, which I think is pretty accurate. If he hadn't made it as a rock star, he'd definitely be a carnie. I was the heroine, of course.
At a conference, Kate Duffy from Kensington Publishing heard about my book from one of my critique partners and asked to see the full manuscript. What? Yes, that was my exact response. I couldn’t believe it. But I did send it in. Kate called and told me that while she liked my voice, she didn’t really love the vampires, and did I have anything else I could show her?
Assuming she wasn’t interested in any of the uncompleted stories from my teen years, (even the very believable Steven Tyler/carnival story) I had to tell her no. To my shock, she asked me to pitch an idea. After a couple weeks of toying with ideas and generally freaking out, I came up with the stories for my Stepp sisters trilogy. I emailed the ideas to her, and within an hour, Kate called and told me she wanted to buy them. Again, I was floored.
Now I have finished six books. Yep, beginnings, middles and ends. I’ve even managed to rework that first book that Kate rejected, and it has been released this month as Fangs for the Memories. I can’t even begin to tell you what an amazing experience this has been for me. Somehow, I made it to that galaxy far, far away.
And not only did I get there, but my best friend who wrote all those silly stories with me made it too. My dear friend, Julie Cohen's, first book Featured Attraction will be out from Mills and Boon in March 2006. Pretty exciting for two girls from Rumford, Maine.
Now if I can just get Kate to publish that Steven Tyler/carnival thing.
Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff is a California native who grew up in both Northern and Southern California as the daughter of scientist and educator parents, which drove her into musical theater at an early age. She acted, sang, danced and played classical piano through the turbulent tween years, and started directing plays at age sixteen, a year she also lived in Istanbul as an AFS exchange student and began college.
At U.C. Berkeley, she majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for. While not doing -- everything else -- she wrote, directed, and acted in productions from Shakespeare to street theater; trained in modern dance; directed and choreographed four full-scale musicals; spent a summer singing backup vocals in a bar at Glacier National Park, audited at least three times as many classes in various subjects as she was actually taking, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, which is a miracle considering -- well, never mind that.
After college she moved to Los Angeles, where she has made an interesting living writing novel adaptations and original suspense and horror scripts for numerous Hollywood studios (Sony, Fox, Disney, Miramax), for producers such as Michael Bay, David Heyman, Laura Ziskin and Neal Moritz. Her adaptation of Sabine Deitmer's psychological thriller Cold Kisses, co-written with Kimball Greenough and Thomas Reuter, was filmed in Germany by director Carl Schenkel.
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