Valerio Ventura

Valerio Ventura is a multi-award-winning writer and artist, and a 2014 Prime-Time Emmy award recipient with more than thirty years of experience in the film industry. Born in Rome, Italy, Valerio grew up being inspired by his mother's love for horror. meanwhile master of Italian horror, Dario Argento was creating his horrifying films a few blocks away from where Valerio grew up. As a teen, Valerio dreamed of coming to the US. After moving to California and becoming a US citizen, he devoted himself to art directing animated shows, and writing and directing television commercials and music videos. Now he's decided to write and publish his own books. Last year Valerio published is first novel, 'Killher', exploring the world of assassins with razor-sharp action, violence, sex, and dark humor. To listen to the iTunes or Audible version, go to the author's website or search iTunes and Audible. In his first horror novella 'Pale Witch', he reunites creatively with his partner G.A. Lawrence to tell a horrific contemporary tale based on a blend of terrifying villains, real locations, and historical facts that span over centuries. -------------- KILLHER: Action Thriller Los Angeles in the late 1990s. Wilshire is a shadowy private security company with clients at the very heart of the establishment, whose secrets are diabolical enough to kill for. And there's no line it won't cross. Akira is one of Wilshire's deadliest assassins-relentless, mad as hell, and mean with a katana. But when a hit on a target doesn't go according to plan, it's her who ends up on the kill list. A plan to use the depravity she's uncovered as a bargaining chip backfires, and The Butcher is dispatched-a vicious adversary who will test Akira to her limits. Now she must battle to protect herself and those she loves. And to survive, she'll need to face her past and forge some unlikely alliances. One thing's for sure ... Blood will flow. -------------- PALE WITCH: Horror Vincent 'Snake' Gray, desperate to evade the death chamber, strikes a dangerous deal with Streka, a witch outcast in 1931's North Salem, New York. But Streka's revenge plot backfires, cursing herself instead. Hurtling through time, Snake fails to end Streka's life, finding himself propelled into the distant future. There, he encounters Gina, bearing Streka's lineage, but fails again to fulfill the curse. As Snake persists across ages, Gina and her allies uncover the curse's secrets. And in 1985 Los Angeles, they face a monstrous truth: an ancient evil defies the natural order. This time, Gina has forged strong alliances and stands ready for the ultimate show-down.