Writer Experience

Krista Sipp is a Literary Manager, Producer and Co-Founder of First Friday Entertainment, a management and production company founded by Devon Byers & Krista, dedicated to showcasing fresh and unique voices.

Jeff Lemire is the award winning, New York Times Best Selling Author of such graphic novels as Essex County, Sweet Tooth, and Underwater Welder, as well as the Co-Creator of Descender with Dustin Nguyen, Black Hammer with Dean Ormston, Gideon Falls with Andrea Sorrentino, and many others. Many of Jeff’s book are in active development for Film or TV, including Essex County, Underwater Welder, Plutona, Gideon Falls, Descender, Family Tree and The Black Hammer Universe at Legendary Entertainment, with Jeff attached as screenwriter and executive producer. Jeff’s Sweet Tooth is currently being adapted into a Netflix series produced by Robert Downey Jr. set to be released in early 2021.

https://twitter.com/JeffLemire

Geoffrey Ward is a seven time Emmy Award-winning and two-time Writers’ Guild Award-winning screenwriter, author, editor, and historian. Geoffrey has collaborated with Ken Burns since 1984 and has been the sole or principal script writer for Huey Long; Statue of Liberty; Thomas Hart Benton; The Civil War; Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; Baseball; The West; Thomas Jefferson; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Jazz; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and The Vietnam War. He also wrote or co-wrote companion volumes for ten of these series. Geoffey was the principal or sole writer of Nixon; Lindbergh; Reminiscing in Tempo; The Kennedys; The Last Boss; TR; and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - all part of PBS’ “American Experience” series. Geoffrey is also an independent historian and biographer, the author of nine books, among them A First-Class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times awards for Best Biography, the Francis Parkman Award of the Society of American Historians in 1989, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently at work on two books: a history of the Partition of India and (with Wynton Marsalis) a history of African American music. He also writes frequently about India and Indian wildlife. Geoffrey lives in New York City with his wife, writer Diane Raines Ward. Ernest Hemingway, his next collaboration with Ken Burns, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is slated for broadcast on PBS in 2021. He’s also working on upcoming projects with Ken Burn on The Holocaust and The United States and The American Revolution.

Robyn Meisinger is a Manager and a Producer for Anonymous Content. Formerly, she was the Co-Founder of Madhouse Entertainment.

Louis Picone is a Presidential Historian, Speaker & Author of "The President Is Dead!: The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond" and “Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces”. His new book, Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon goes on sale February 2, 2021.

https://twitter.com/LouisPicone

https://www.louispicone.com/

Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764340794/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

The President Is Dead!: The Extraordinary Stories of Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HDVC1BE/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1950691705/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

Murr is a Comedian, Actor, Author, and Producer who stars in TruTV’s Impractical Jokers.

Darren Wearmouth is the Bestselling Author of First Activation, The Invasion Trilogy, and Sixth Cycle, as well as the Co-Host of the speculative podcast Casual Loops.

Together, Murr and Darren have co-written three novels, Awakened, The Brink, and their newest book, Obliteration.

OBLITERATION GOES ON SALE TODAY, JUNE 23rd!

https://twitter.com/jamessmurray

https://twitter.com/darrenwearmouth

Rodney Barnes is a veteran award-winning Screenwriter and Producer who has established himself as a Hollywood mainstay. His vibrant, emphatic voice and producing expertise is exemplified in an array of some of the industry's largest and most influential programs. From Adult Swim's The Boondocks to Marvel's Runaways to Starz' American Gods to Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Rodney has displayed a versatility in a variety of genres.

Rodney is currently an Executive Producer and a Writer for HBO's tentatively titled Showtime, which chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Showtime Lakers during the team's wild and fast-paced golden years. His new graphic novel Killadelphia was released in November 2019 through Image Comics, and he’s currently also working on an untitled monster Monster movie for New Regency. Killadelphia has been optioned and he’s working on the script for it, and he’s also working on a novel.

https://twitter.com/therodneybarnes

Dan Carlin is a New York Times-best selling Author as well as the host of the podcasts Hardcore History, Hardcore History: Addendum, and Common Sense. His first book, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, is available now.

https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory

For our 100th episode, we compiled the best advice from episodes 1-100 into one "Secrets of Writing" episode, with insights from‬ industry professionals for Netflix, Marvel, Star Wars, etc.

David Mariotte is an Editor at IDW Publishing, where he edits a range of comic book titles including Transformers, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Canto. He’s also a Comic Book Writer and is currently co-writing Transformers vs. The Terminator for IDW and Dark Horse.

https://twitter.com/IDW_David_M