Writer Experience

Precious Brady Davis is truly a renaissance woman. You may recognize her name from being the first Trans bride on TLC’s Say Yes to The Dress, but she was trailblazing for years before that: promoting diversity advocacy, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice and more. An award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker, she currently serves as the associate regional communications director at the Sierra Club. She served for three years as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater, implementing the campus-wide diversity initiative and providing leadership and oversight of national diversity recruitment and inclusion policy initiatives. She also served as the youth outreach coordinator at the Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ community center in the Midwest. During Precious's tenure, she launched a $1.6 million CDC HIV prevention grant, which provided outreach, education, youth programming, and testing services to ov

Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. Her fourth Broadway play premiered on Broadway in 2018, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Other Broadway works include Dead Accounts; Seminar and Mauritius. Other notable NY and regional plays include: Seared (MCC), Downstairs (Primary Stages), The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels (Second Stage), Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout), View of the Dome (NYTW), What We’re Up Against (Women’s Project), Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Prize finalist). As a director, her work has been seen at The Alley Theatre (Houston), the REP Company (Delaware); Dorset Theatre Festival, the Orchard Project and the Folger Theatre. Major film and television projects include Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse (writer and director), “NYPD

Isabella Mastrodicasa is a producer and a talent manager representing digital storytellers at Heroes and Villains Entertainment. https://www.instagram.com/isabellamastrodicasa

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now. https://www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/1680571451/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1621627715&sr=8-3

David Boxerbaum is a partner and literary agent at Verve Talent & Literary Agency.

Greg Russo is the screenwriter of the new MORTAL KOMBAT film, which opened Friday, April 23rd, as well as the upcoming films Saints Row, Space Invaders, and Death Note 2. MORTAL KOMBAT recently broke the record for most Red Band trailer views in a week, dethroning Deadpool. https://twitter.com/WriterRusso

Chris Enss is an author and screenwriter who has written more than 20 books on the subject of women in the Old West, and has collaborated with producer Howard Kazanjian on seven books, including two about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Chris has won 5 Will Rogers Medallion Award, 2 Academy of Western Artists Elmer Kelton Award, and the Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award. Chris has 2 books coming out, the first called Iron Women, about the women who built the railroad, comes out later this year, and an upcoming book with Howard Kazanjian, called the Widow’s Circle, about the Elizabeth Custer, comes out in 2022. https://twitter.com/4par

Jermaine Johnson and Ari Lubet are managers and producers at 3 Arts Entertainment.

Ep 138 - "Overcoming Writer's Block During Quarantine Pt 2" by Writer Experience

Alex London writes books for adults including One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in Warm, children including Dog Tags series and An Accidental Adventure series, and teens including Proxy. At one time a journalist who traveled the world reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, he is now a full time novelist living in Philadelphia. Alex' most recent book, the third and final installment in his Skybound Saga series, Gold Wings Rising, is in stores now! https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Wings-Rising-Skybound-Saga/dp/0374306893 https://twitter.com/ca_london

Kate Hope Day is the author of If, Then and the upcoming novel, In the Quick. She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh and was an associate producer at HBO. The television rights for If, Then sparked a heated auction, which Heyday Films, the creator of the Harry Potter movies and Gravity, eventually won. Apple TV has greenlit the project contingent upon casting, with NBCUniversal as studio. Kate will be a co-producer for the show. IN THE QUICK is in stores now. https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Novel-Kate-Hope-Day/dp/0525511253 https://www.instagram.com/katehopeday

Carol Edgarian is the author of the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many others. She is co-founder of the non-profit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which provides reading and writing resources to teachers and students around the world. She’s also written for the screen, is developing a limited series for Three Stages of Amazement, teaches fiction, and is a frequent speaker at speaking events around the world on the art of story. Carol's newest novel, VERA, is in stores now! https://www.amazon.com/Vera-Novel-Carol-Edgarian/dp/1501157523 https://twitter.com/caroledgarian

Paul Vidich is an author and former senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel, An Honorable Man, a Publisher's Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by The Good Assassin and The Coldest Warrior. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Lit Hub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere. Paul's newest novel, THE MERCENARY, is in stores now! https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Novel-Paul-Vidich/dp/1643136208 https://twitter.com/paulvidich

Jim Bloom's career in the movie and entertainment industries began when he worked with George Lucas on "American Graffiti". Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola on "The Conversation", Robert Altman on "Thieves Like Us", Sam Peckinpah on "The Killer Elite", Steven Spielberg on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Hal Ashby on "Bound for Glory" and "Coming Home", Mathew Robbins on "Corvette Summer", and Phil Kaufman on "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He rejoined George Lucas to become an Associate Producer on "The Empire Strikes Back" and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a co-Producer on "Return of the Jedi". He produced "Warning Sign" for 20th Century Fox, and "Fires Within", directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Volker Schlondorf, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Jim worked as a creative executive at

Jim Bloom's career in the movie and entertainment industries began when he worked with George Lucas on "American Graffiti". Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola on "The Conversation", Robert Altman on "Thieves Like Us", Sam Peckinpah on "The Killer Elite", Steven Spielberg on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Hal Ashby on "Bound for Glory" and "Coming Home", Mathew Robbins on "Corvette Summer", and Phil Kaufman on "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He rejoined George Lucas to become an Associate Producer on "The Empire Strikes Back" and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a co-Producer on "Return of the Jedi". He produced "Warning Sign" for 20th Century Fox, and "Fires Within", directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Volker Schlondorf, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Jim worked as a creative executive at

Adalyn Grace is a New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth, which was named “2020’s biggest YA fantasy” by Entertainment Weekly. Prior to becoming an author, Adalyn spent four years working in live theatre, acted as the managing editor of a nonprofit newspaper, and studied storytelling as an intern on Nickelodeon Animation’s popular series The Legend of Korra. Local to San Diego, Adalyn spends her non-writing days by watching too much anime, and by playing video games with her dorky dog. Adalyn's newest book, All the Tides of Fate, releases today, February 2nd! https://www.amazon.com/Tides-Fate-Stars-Teeth-Duology/dp/1250307813/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.instagram.com/authoradalyngrace

Tiffany is a writer and director originally from Cashmere, Washington. She's won both the prestigious Disney ABC writing fellowship and a Sony TV Diverse Directing Fellowship. She wrote the feature adaptation of Nancy Drew for Warner Brothers, and her sequel to the classic Adventures In Babysitting was nominated for both DGA and Imagen awards. Her first original short The Swan won Best Picture at the LA Live Score Film Festival, and was an official selection at Palm Springs International. In 2019 Tiffany wrote two original features, Turkey Drop for Freeform; and Holidate for Netflix and McG/Wonderland, for which she also served as Executive Producer. Holidate is now streaming on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81034553 https://www.instagram.com/thetiffanypaulsen

Jay Faerber is a critically-acclaimed comic book and television writer. Currently he is a writer for The CW TV series Supergirl. He is also known for co-creating and writing such comic book series as Elsewhere, Copperhead, Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, and Near Death at Image Comics, and has worked on such iconic titles as Generation X, X-Men, and New Warriors for Marvel Comics, and The Titans and Green Lantern for DC Comics. He was also a writer for the TV series Star-Crossed and Zoo. twitter.com/jayfaerber Barbara Bottner is a New York Times bestselling author. Since growing up in the 1960s Bronx, Barbara has had a hand in almost every aspect of book publishing. She has written and illustrated over 50 books for children, has reviewed books for major trade and consumer publications such as The New York Times, has published short stories and essays in national newspapers and magazines, has written written sitcoms and screenplays, and has been teaching writing and illustrating in major institutions, including UCLA,

Joy Gorman Wettels is a partner and producer at Anonymous Content focused on social impact content for women and youth. She’s also the executive producer of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark, and the feature films Seeking a Friend For the End of the World and The Meddler. https://twitter.com/joymaryro

Peter Miller has been a literary and film manager for several decades and is President and CEO of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management, Inc. He has represented more than 1,500 books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers. In addition, his company has had multiple movies produced that he either managed, developed or executive produced, and currently has many film and television projects in development. Three of the films he produced have been nominated for Emmy Awards including Goodbye, Miss Fourth of July, A Gift of Love, and Helter Skelter. Peter has a number of film and television projects currently in active development with major film studios and production companies. He’s actively pursuing select clients and projects throughout the world. Website: https://globallionmanagement.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theliterarylion/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globallionmgt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/globallionmgt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLionMgt/ Youtube