Darling

Brad C. Hodson began his creative career doing stand-up and improv comedy with Einstein Simplified before founding the award winning sketch comedy group “Happy Nowhere.” After moving from Knoxville, TV to Southern California, Hodson focused on writing, working as a script doctor and screenwriter. His non-fiction has been published in magazines nationwide and his piece on school shootings, “Slaying Dragons: The Positive Effects of Violent Media On Children,” was a runner up for the Kornbluh Award. His short stories can be read in compilations alongside folks like George RR Martin, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, and many more of his literary heroes. The story “Things Unsaid” received the Roselle Lewis Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 2009. His first novel, Darling, is available through Bad Moon Books. When not writing, Hodson is the Administrator for the Horror Writers Association and coordinates digital media work between Los Angeles and India for Technicolor. He enjoys traveling, lifting heavy things made of iron, and writing about himself in third person. For more information on where to find his material, please check out www.brad-hodson.com.

Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin’s motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll’s House.

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.