PETE D'ALESSANDRO, AUTHOR

After graduating from Penn State University, Pete D'Alessandro moved to Hollywood, CA in search of fame and fortune.   Having found neither, he decided to lose the weight that had plagued him his whole life.   He has served as project manager for the TV show Clean Sweep, worked on feature films, been a field engineer for a major government contractor, a professional organizer, and a bartender.   He now performs stand-up all over the country, and he recently ran the LA and San Diego marathons.   Fame and fortune still elude him.

(Photo of Pete courtesy of LA Photo Party)

 

ERIC FELTER , ILLUSTRATOR

IEric Felter works in California as a sculptor and illustrator.  He's also the author of the darkly satirical website, Baradam.com .  

 

ALIE FLIERL, EDITOR

Alison Flierl is a writer, editor, and filmmaker. She graduated cum laude from Ithaca College Park School of Communications, where she majored in Cinema Production with strong minors in English and Scriptwriting. Flierl has received such honors as a finishing grant from the Greenwich Arts Council for her short film Jane, and placed in the Semi Finals for the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project competition. …And Wife, Flierl’s senior film workshop project, received a Pendleton finishing grant and was screened for members of the Kodak Program at Cannes Film Festival.

After Ithaca, Flierl relocated to Los Angeles and since has worked on several television and film productions (Father of the Pride, Early Bird, My Mom’s Just Not That Into Me, Joey, Undead or Alive). She is also the editor and publisher of the book Prayer, Laughter and Broccoli, a guidebook for husbands of women going through breast cancer, which won the “Book of the Year” Award in 2006 from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Since editing The UnAmerican Undiet, Flierl has lost close to thirty pounds herself and counts her blessings that the book and the author came into her life.

 

MELLISA REID, COVER ART

Melissa has been a graphic designer for many years and has done a variety of illustrations/paintings and few book covers. Although she's only been oil painting in the last few years, her credentials include art work that was shown at the Sage Moon Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. She also received an award at the 2005 Lynchburg, VA Art Festival for one of her paintings. Please visit her website where you can view her artwork at melissagallery.com.