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Steve Zell
A kid who spent many days exploring abandoned hotels and stores in then ghost town, Jerome, Arizona, Steve Zell always loved to tell stories, draw scary pictures, and sing. Later, he became an animator and digital animation tools instructor for the LA area animation and FX studios and, as a singer, became the "Voice of Doom" for Baywatch. Steve was the first interdisciplinary studies graduate from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he studied studio art, vocal production, drama, journalism, and chemistry. He was an early member of the Tucson Invisible Theatre Company, and the cartoonist for The Tombstone Epitaph, a town he later combined with Jerome, Arizona, and with Bodi, California, to create the setting, Pinon Rim, for his first novel, WiZrD. His family's frequent summer trips to his grandmother's home in Del Mar, California in the 60s, provided the setting for Running Cold.
A UA "Wildcat for life" and former desert rat, he now lives with his wife and daughter in the slightly more liquid climate of Portland, Oregon, where he began the partnership between Intel and Dreamworks|SKG, as well as the Intel Audio Alliance whose members included Billy Bob Thornton, Graham Nash, George Massenburg, Michael Boddicker, Nathaniel Kunkel, Allen Sides, Rory Kaplan and other audio pros. He participates in community theater, spends way too much time on the computer - and...is always on the lookout for a cool ghost town... |
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In the hands of a young boy, an ancient gift can be a nightmare... Mourning the loss of her husband and oldest child, Brit Helm struggles to create a new and normal life for her youngest, Michael, in a small beach town. But the intrusion of a pretty surfer threatens to shatter any hope of maintaining control, and control him she must...
RUNNING COLD
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Pinon Rim: more than just a hole in the ground, it's a gateway to hell.
It was a town that died with a powerful ancient secret. Now, Pinon Rim is ready to live again...and remember. Fourteen-year-old Bryce Willems is the new kid in the old boomtown. With his intense, brilliant painter father and inquisitive, budding stepsister, he's beginning to appreciate the desert charms of his new home.
Then he stumbles onto an abandoned mine called Wizrd-the resting ground of a vengeful Indian spirit that has found no rest; a presence that grants you everything you want and then takes away everything you love; a place where Bryce, the loyal son, will struggle to save his family, and must fight to stay alive.
WIZRD
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Members of an Oregon family move to the mountains hoping to escape city life, only to find themselves fighting for their own lives and, possibly, for civilization itself.
Twins Kristi and Reed Carroll could not be more different. While Kristi trains for her shot at Olympic glory in the winter games, Reed spends his days in the cyber world of video games. But something sinister has found its way into both worlds that will soon bring them together, or tear them apart forever.
URBAN LIMIT
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A supernatural murder mystery two women must solve to survive. A pair of investigators attempt to solve a series of murders and become targets themselves in this supernatural thriller set in the growing years of Phoenix, Arizona. With the creation of a massive water project meant to bring life and prosperity to the desert, Navajo legend and political intrigue clash with deadly force. A series of water-related deaths lead investigative reporter Deanne Mulhenney and medical examiner Sara Poole to believe something sinister and very, very powerful may connect them all.
TRUE CREATURE
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