Beyond being an award-winning novelist, Ellison professes an interest in almost everything and claims to be a generalist by current profession. His formal schooling -- which went as far as an MBA from Pepperdine University -- took place in Oregon and California. Ellison is and has been a planner, a business consultant, an entrepreneur, an art director and designer, a student, an executive, a musician, a traveler, a father of four marvelous adult children, an inventor, a copywriter, a chef, a futurist, an evoluter, an editor and a storyteller. Ellison’s literary hero is Jack Vance, and agrees with those who see Vance as one of the greatest novelists of our time.

In addition to The Luck of Madonna 13, Ellison is also coauthor of Wynderry Press' new travel/recipe/talebook called Recipe Rangers in the West, and the forthcoming (2004) Roseberry Hill, a collection of exurbanites' tales from Bear Mountain, where all the animals are above average. During the 1990s he was a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar and Acoustic Musician magazines. The author currently lives with the ghost of a cat named Madonnawanna on a mountainside in California. Whenever possible he travels, rides motorcycles, builds or plants things and plays guitar.

E. T. Ellison’s personal website (www.etellison.com) contains a wealth of additional personal and professional information.

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