The Luck of Madonna 13

E. T. Ellison is an award-winning author who professes an interest in almost everything and claims to be a generalist by current profession. His formal education includes an MBA from Pepperdine University, with undergraduate work at Lewis & Clark and San Jose State University.

Ellison is and has been a planner, a marketing consultant, an entrepreneur, an art director and designer, a student, an executive, a musician, a traveler, a father of four marvelous adult children, an inventor, a copywriter, a chef, a websmith, a futurist, an evoluter, an editor, a storyteller, a portal publisher and a columnist. During during several decades as a consultant he worked with such companies as Mobil, Marriott, Mitsubishi among many others.

Although he has written everything from annual reports to TV commercials to zines, Ellison is new to book and story authoring. The critically-acclaimed, Book-of-the-Year award-winning novel The Luck of Madonna 13 is his first published work of fiction. In nonfiction, he recently coauthored an adventurous travel/recipe/talebook called Recipe Rangers in the West.

A selection of Ellison's exercises in speculative whimsy can be found online at Orphans Eleven, a literary zine. Current writing projects include the second book in the Last Nevergate Chronicles, the first thriller in the Solver series and a children's fantasy novel called Night Funnels.

Ellison currently lives on a mountainside in the vicinity of Tehachapi, California. Whenever possible he travels, rides motorcycles, builds or plants things and plays guitar (not at the same time and not necessarily in that order).

E. T. Ellison’s personal website (www.etellison.com) contains a surfeit of additional personal and professional information.