Don’t let his sinister appearance fool you, Bryan Hilson is actually a sweet-natured Wisconsinite who studied creative writing at Bowling Green State University before landing in Los Angeles to write novels and screenplays. He’s telling the truth if he says his young adult manuscripts, The Chronicles of What Happened, by Cam Hanson and This Mind Isn’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us were the recipient of a SCBWI “Most Promising YA Manuscript” award and his favorite champagne rejections, respectively. But the claim that Cam Hanson is actually based on his own teenage years spent controlling his parents with regression therapy and This Mind on his discovery that the celebrity poet he is in his unconscious mind actually exists? Sorry, those are just coincidences.

When not refining his latest hybrid-genre story about a human girl who is not supposed to be human, Bryan enjoys walks with his wife through the urban jungle, pop art exhibitions, feeding his 90’s movie obsession, and losing himself inside a good book–“Hell Followed With Us,” “Time Will Tell,” and “All These Bodies” are some of his current favorites. He does not, however, enjoy losing himself inside abandoned department stores, which can happen from time to time.

Bryan invites you to visit his website and blog periodically and join him in celebrating the kind of creativity and imagination that’s out there in plain sight and also hiding under his bed at night.