About the authors:

Alana B. Lytle is a screenwriter whose recent credits include Netflix's Brand New Cherry Flavor and Peacock's A Friend of the Family. Her short fiction has been published in Guernica. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and sausage-shaped dog. Man's Best Friend is her debut novel.

Carleton Eastlake was named a 2022 Who? New! debut author by the Brooklyn Book Festival for his novel Monkey Business. He has also shared in Edgar and Saturn awards for his work in television and is a past President of PEN Center USA and a former board member of the Writers Guild of America West. He now sits on the WGAW Membership & Finance, Strike Fund, and Television Credits Committees and is a member of PEN International’s Writers Circle.

He graduated from UCLA in political science and psychology and from Harvard Law School with a concentration in law and the social sciences. After a career in public policy and consumer protection law, being hired as a Co-Executive Producer on Steven Spielberg’s series seaQuest DSV confirmed him as a television writer-producer as well.
In recent years he has been affiliated with USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies as a media consultant and futurist on projects related to national defense.

He has also served as an instructor in the UCLA Film School’s Professional Screenwriting graduate certificate program and appeared as a guest panelist at the American Film Institute, Emerson College, and Harvardwood.

His wife Loraine Despres is a best-selling novelist, television writer, and tree-farmer. They live in Los Angeles, California.