Keith Stern has produced some of the most popular biographical Web sites on the Internet. Since 1997 he has been collaborating with Sir Ian McKellen on the actor’s autobiographical Web site, McKellen.com. He has also produced official Web sites for Lynn Redgrave, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Spinal Tap, the film “Gods and Monsters” and others for movie stars and movies. Stern started in the music business as a musician followed by several years with Warner Bros Records in field promotion, public relations, A&R and IT. In 1979 in Charlotte, N.C., he transformed the Milestone into a showcase punk rock/new wave music venue and in 1981 with Ben Clark, he opened a larger venue, Viceroy Park. As an independent promoter, he produced many early concerts for punk/new wave acts including R.E.M., The Ramones, The Go-Go’s, Iggy Pop, Bow Wow Wow and Joan Jett. His screenplay “Freezing Time” will be filmed in 2009, starring Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, “King Kong”). Keith currently lives in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Mark Stevens is a bestselling author; CEO of MSCO, a results-driven management and marketing firm; and a popular media commentator on a host of business matters including marketing, branding, management, and sales. Stevens is known for delivering business insights with blunt truth and unconventional wisdom.
Mark Stevens shook the marketing establishment with his Business Week bestseller, Your Marketing Sucks (Random House/Crown Business, 2003), and redefined the rules of sales with God Is A Salesman. He is the author of 24 business-related books, including the bestsellers: The Big Eight, King Icahn, and Sudden Death: The Rise and Fall of EF Hutton (a Wall Street Journal bestseller and Library Journal “Business Book of the Year”).
Stevens’ incisive understanding of critical business issues is geared toward achieving extraordinary growth and success for his clients. His firm, MSCO, represents a stellar roster of clients. Through integrated marketing campaigns, MSCO focuses on achieving financial results for its clients instead of awards that serve egos. Stevens possesses an innovative and iconoclastic view of the business world.
He is an in-demand speaker at organizations from Siemens, Virgin Air, Nike, and Oracle to the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. A frequent guest commentator, Stevens lends his insights and opinions on a wide variety of topics, from Carl Icahn’s latest moves (Fox Business Channel) to Tom Cruise’s image (Fox News Channel), to “Why Successful Business People Don’t Sleep” (New York Times), and how to “Be a Better Boss in 2007” (Forbes.com).
His wildly successful blog, Unconventional Thinking, is in the top one percent of all published blogs (out of 95 million blogs) and was recently named in the top 10 of all marketing blogs. Stevens is a regular guest blogger for Brandweek.com and the digital PR blogger for PR News Online. More about Mark Stevens can be found at www.MSCO.com.
Greg Stevenson is Professor of Religion and Greek at Rochester College. After writing on archaeology and the Book of Revelation, he decided to spend valuable research time listening to music and watching television. Since then he has written on U2, Christianity and Hollywood, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” His book Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated for the Mr. Pointy award by Slayage.
Parker Stevenson is the Chief Business Officer at Evolved Finance; an accounting firm that specializes in helping online entrepreneurs to build more profitable and financially stable online businesses. For over 8 years, Parker has been advising some of the top coaches, course creators, influencers, and thought leaders on how to make more sound business decisions using their financial data. Before joining Evolved Finance, Parker spent five years at Adidas America where he was the US merchandising manager for golf footwear. During off hours, Parker spends time with his wife, Cameron, and their son, Griffin.
Books by Parker Stevenson
Alison Stine is the author of a poetry chapbook, Lot of my Sister (Kent State University Press, 2001), winner of the Wick Prize. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, Tin House, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Hayden’s Ferry Review and others. Her awards include scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Academy of American Poets Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Formerly the Emerging Writer at Gettysburg College, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her first novel.
Robert Stokes is a novelist, playwright and former journalist with Newsweek and Life magazines who served in Army Intelligence in the l960s in West Germany. Stokes is collaborating with Martin Kaiser on a memoir entitled Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: The King of Electronic Countermeasures, to be published by Carroll and Graf in 2005.
A Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, and winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, Eric James Stone has had stories published in Year’s Best SF 15, Analog, Nature, and Kevin J. Anderson’s Blood Lite anthologies of humorous horror, among other venues. Eric is also an assistant editor for Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. His short fiction collection, Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories, was published by Paper Golem Press in 2011. Eric lives in Utah, and his website can be found at www.ericjamesstone.com.
Susan Stone, Esq., has dedicated her life to helping students in crisis and meeting their legal needs. As cochair of the Student & Athlete Defense group at KJK law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, Susan handles matters ranging from special education issues to student disciplinary matters and Title IX investigations, and has gained a national reputation for representing students and professors in Title IX cases. Susan is certified in restorative justice, and has also guided students through informal resolution, including mediation and restorative justice. In addition, Susan proudly cohosts the podcast Real Talk with Susan and Kristina to discuss with outside guests cutting-edge issues affecting students.
Books by Susan Stone, Esq.
After decades of intensive textual analysis, literary historians have finally reached a consensus that Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, Caine Black Knife, the Barra & Co. novels, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor, Star Wars: Shatterpoint and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith were in fact not written by Matthew Woodring Stover at all, but by another man of the same name.
