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Los Angeles Times Bestselling Author Stephen Jay Schwartz spent a number of years as the Director of Development for Wolfgang Petersen where he worked to develop screenplays for production. His two novels, Boulevard and Beat, follow the journey of sex-addicted. LAPD detective Hayden Glass. Stephen was a judge for the 2012 Edgar and ITW Awards. His work will be included in a short story collection with T.C. Boyle, to be published by Red Hen Press in 2016, as well as the short story collection "Jewish Noir," to be published in 2015 by PM Press. Stephen is a regular moderator at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and will be a 2016/2017 judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the mystery/thriller category.

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