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Author: Emily Dell

Emily Dell is an award-winning screenwriter and film director. Recent work can be seen on Lifetime, CryptTV, Amazon Prime and on YouTube with more than 15 million views. In commercials Dell has directed for clients including Marvel Studios, Fox, PepsiCo, Estee Lauder, and has won Viddy, Telly, Addy, Aster and Platinum Hermes Awards. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, and is the author of the graphic novel VERONA, published by Emet Comics and available wherever comic books are sold. A graduate of UC Berkeley with degrees in neurobiology and international literature, Dell counts among her proudest achievements the ability to eat M&Ms with chopsticks, officiating the wedding of her two best friends, and the time she sold a dirty poem for a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch.
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05/06/2024

Off-Trail at Your Own Risk

Hollywood and other wilds of Southern California

by Emily Dell

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