La Jolla Writers Conference of San Diego

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After surrendering his goal of playing pro football, Eldon Thompson set out to publish a fantasy adventure novel. In 2003, he sold his “Legend of Asahiel” trilogy to HarperCollins. In it, he has dutifully followed some of the longest-standing conventions of the genre… in order to tear them all down and catch a reader or two by surprise. He is also a graduate of the UCLA screenwriting program and a member of the WGA. His screenplay adaptation of Terry Brooks’s “Shannara” is currently in development at Warner Bros.