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Clay Stafford

Clay Stafford is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He has sold over 1.5 million hardcover copies of his children’s adaptations and has seen his film work distributed internationally in over 14 languages. Four of his five staged murder mysteries have had Los Angeles premieres. He has reviewed books, plays, and films, writes near-daily book reviews for the Killer Nashville Book of the Day program, has been quoted on book jackets, and has edited several PBS companion books associated with national series. Publishers Weekly has named Stafford one of the top 10 Nashville literary leaders playing “an essential role in defining which books become bestsellers” not only in middle-Tennessee but also extending “beyond the city limits and into the nation’s book culture.” (PW 6/10/13). He is the founder of Killer Nashville and publisher of Killer Nashville Magazine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Killer Nashville’s Broken Ribbon: A Journal of the Arts, and was the Editor of the anthology Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded. He has served on the board of numerous nonprofits. Clay has a B.A. and M.F.A. and has been a professor or lecturer at several major universities. His list of current projects includes the award-winning feature-length documentary “One Of The Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story” and the music CD “XO” with fellow mystery writer Jeffery Deaver. Previously associated with Universal Studios and PBS, he is currently President/CEO of American Blackguard, Inc., a publishing/film and television/music/entertainment company near Nashville, Tennessee. More information can be found at www.ClayStafford.com.

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