BETSY ASHTON PAUL AWAD

Paul Awad is a filmmaker and fiction writer. His debut novel is the science fiction thriller When Earth Shall Be No More (co-written with his wife, Featured Author Kathryn O’Sullivan). Recent film work includes the crime drama, A Savage Nature (distributed by Gravitas Ventures). The film was set and filmed in Virginia and has won several Best Feature festival awards and the Hollywood Screenplay Contest’s Grand Prize Thriller Award. His film, Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace, won the Utopian Vision Award (2021 Utopia Film Festival) and Best Documentary Short (2022 Arlington International Film Festival). Paul’s directing/cinematography work has won recognition from the Telly Awards, International Academy of Web Television, ADDY Awards, The Kodak Company, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Visit his website to find out more about his work at www.Paul-Awad.com

Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, No Home for Killers, received praise from The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and was an instant Amazon Bestseller. His previous thriller, They’re Gone, was published to rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews (starred), and named one of the best books of 2020 by South Florida Sun Sentinel. He is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and is an active member of Crime Writers of Color and Sisters in Crime. He runs the DC Noir at the Bar series, was born in Panama, and now lives and writes in, and generally about, the DC/MD/VA triangle. Visit his website at www.EAymar.com.