Steven Mallas has previously written articles for The Motley Fool, TheStreet, and AOLs BloggingStocks. He is very interested in the media segment, and has intensely studied the Hollywood business model over the years. As such, he is fascinated with the idea of storytelling as an asset and is a writer of fiction. He’s been published at Nikki Finke’s Hollywood Dementia site, with stories including “The Streaming Service,” “The Screenwriterman,” “Mygalomorph” and “Spielberg’s Last Film.”His most recent short story is called “The Last Saturday Night Live,” about what the last Saturday Night Live show would be like if the world was about to end. He also has another short story called “Salem PD” available. It imagines a special division within the department that responds to supernatural emergencies in the Witch City – “X-Files” meets Dick-Wolf procedural. He’s written a one-hour pilot based on the concept. In addition, he is the author of a YA book, “Abner Wilcox Thornberry and The Witch of Wall Street,” as well as a collection of short horror stories: “Tales From Salem, Mass.” All available at Amazon Kindle. He holds a degree in the biological sciences.
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