Lance Taubold is the current recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for BEST FIRST NON-FICTION for ON TWO FRONTS. He has been an entertainer for 25 years, performing at the MET Opera, on Broadway, and on television for 5 years on the soap operas "General Hospital and "Port Charles." As a writer he has written for Envy Man magazine, both as a fiction writer and book reviewer. His first novel, RIPPER A LOVE STORY, written with author Richard Devin, was published summer 2013. In early 2014 he released the novelette series: ZODIAC LOVERS: BOOKS 1,2,3,4. 2015: NEVER FEAR: A Horror Anthology written with F. Paul Wilson and eight other well-known authors. His current release is in horror anthology Never Fear--Phobias with Heather Graham, F. Paul Wilson, Thomas Monteleone, Erin McCarthy and others to be followed by Never Fear--Christmas Terrors in December 2015.He is also currently writing a paranormal romance series with New York Times Bestselling author Heather Graham to be released in 2016.All books are be published by 13Thirty Books. www.13Thirtybooks.com