The Cinevore creative team and authors of the Parallax trilogy will be speaking to the California Writers Club (Orange County Branch) this Saturday, March 1st.

Come join us. It’s a FREE event!

Writing Collaboration: Building Worlds and Characters hosted by the California Writers Club at the Anaheim Packing House

Guest Speaker: Matt Conant & Lauren Cippolo
Topic: “Writing Collaboration: Building Worlds and Characters”

■ 9:00am – 9:30am Networking
■ 9:30am – 11:00am Guest Speaker

MATT CONANT

Matt Conant is a bestselling author, writer, director, and show creator living in Los Angeles, specializing in comedy, genre and gaming fare for a variety of media. Matt is a writer on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 (MST3K, Netflix), as well as THE MST3K LIVE TOUR. He has created, written & directed many digital comedy series including NERD VS. GEEK, MOOT, OVERANALYZERS, and SOCIETY: WHY IT’S WRONG, and served as writer and frequent collaborator on THE ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD, SUPER PLUMBER BROS. and LIVING IN 8 BITS. His debut novel ORIGIN, Book 1 of the PARALLAX series, co-authored with Lauren Cipollo and from publisher Aethon Books, recently became a #1 Amazon Bestseller. Matt is currently adapting a neo-noir video game property for TV, writing a tabletop RPG with Emmy-award-winning producer Jenni Powell, and co-writing a digital series with esteemed animation writer Jonathan Callan. Matt has been a guest speaker on the subjects of comedy, writing and filmmaking at schools, festivals, and conventions nationwide. You can find him online at cinevore.com.

LAUREN CIPOLLO

Lauren Cipollo is a #1 Amazon Bestselling writer and illustrator specializing in science fiction, fantasy and other genre fare. Her debut trilogy, the PARALLAX series co-written with Matt Conant, debuted in April from Aethon Books to a 4.6 star rating on Amazon and Goodreads. Her dystopian short story WE USED TO FLY won a Silver Honorable Mention for Writers of the Future. In the gaming realm, Lauren is a co-star on the actual-play podcast HELLA XP, and is developing two tabletop role-playing games, one based on the PARALLAX universe and one based on Steven Peros’s comic book series STOKER & WELLS. Lauren graduated from the University of the Arts Cum Laude with a BFA in animation. Her 16-year zookeeping career culminated in being a polar bear keeper at the San Diego Zoo, and her life of animals and biology now influences all her projects, such as her workplace comedy KEEPERS. You can find more of her work at laurencipollo.com.