Alameda Writers Group September meeting September 12, 2009

Alameda Writers Group Presents Mark Ebner

Alameda Writers Group is proud to welcome Mark Ebner, author, journalist, TV host, and altogether Renaissance man, who will speak on September 12th about putting himself on the line to get the story, marketing yourself, and making a career out of bringing some of Hollywood’s darker stories to light.

New York Times best selling author Mark Ebner is an award winning investigative journalist who has covered all aspects of celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Details, Los Angeles, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar and New Times among other national and international publications. He has repeatedly positioned himself in harm's way, conducting over fifty in-depth investigations into such subjects as Scientology, Pit Bull fighting in South Central Los Angeles, the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, celebrity stalkers, drug dealers, missing porn stars, sports groupies, college suicides and Hepatitis C in Hollywood.

Ebner has produced for and/or appeared as a journalist-commentator on NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, A&E, The BBC, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, FX, VH-1 and E! Entertainment Television. He has been a featured guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, The Early Show, Inside Edition, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Fox & Friends, Catherine Crier Live, and a host of other television and radio programs in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom and Asia. In 2000, Ebner hosted his own nationally syndicated radio program, Drastic Radio, and co-authored the New York Times/Los Angeles Times best-seller, "Hollywood, Interrupted" in 2005 with Andrew Breitbart of the Drudge Report.

Ebner consulted on the Emmy-nominated "Trapped In The Closet" episode of South Park for Comedy Central, consulted for NBC/Dateline on the "Paris Hilton Tapes" report, and field produced a one-hour VH1 special on the same topic. He also hosted "Rich and Reckless," a crime show for TruTV, recently authored the Hollywood crime book "Six Degrees of Paris Hilton" for Simon Spotlight Entertainment, and blogs breaking news from the corner of Hollywood & Crime at HollywoodInterrupted.com.

Alameda Writers Group – Los Angeles is a non-profit group for writers of all genres in all stages of development. AWG hosts meetings on the first Saturday of every month at the Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St, Glendale, CA 91205. There is free parking for up to three hours at the garage across the street on Harvard. For more information please visit alamedawritersgroup.org.

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