E. T. Ellison is an award-winning author who professes an interest in almost everything and currently thinks of himself as an extreme dilettante by profession. His formal education includes an MBA from Pepperdine University, with undergraduate work at Lewis & Clark College and San Jose State University.

Ellison is and has been a planner, a marketing consultant, an entrepreneur, an art director and designer, a photographer, a student, an executive, a musician, a traveler, a father of four marvelous adult children, an inventor, a copywriter, a chef, a websmith, a futurist, an evoluter, an editor, a storyteller, a portal publisher and a columnist. During during several decades as a consultant he worked with such companies as Mobil, Marriott and Mitsubishi, among many others (not all of which have company names beginning with the letter "M").

Although he has written everything from annual reports to TV commercials to zines, Ellison is relatively new to book and story authoring. The critically-acclaimed, Book-of-the-Year winning novel The Luck of Madonna 13 is his first published work of fiction. Book Two in the Last Nevergate Chronicles, The Mask of Madonna 13, is well underway and his YA fantasy novel, Night Funnels, is in its final birthing throes. In nonfiction, he coauthored an adventurous travel-recipe-talebook called Recipe Rangers in the West.

A selection of Ellison's shorter exercises in speculative whimsy can be found online at Orphans Eleven, a quasi-literary zine.

Ellison recently fulfilled a multi-decade dream of moving to the Pacific Northwest (part time, at least) and engaging in a Quixotic quest to turn some acres of raw land into a functioning permastead. Whenever possible he travels, rides motorcycles, designs, builds and/or plants things and plays guitar (not at the same time and not necessarily in that order).

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