Professing an interest in almost everything, E. T. Ellison claims to be a generalist by current profession. His formal schooling -- which went as far as an MBA - took place in Oregon and California. Ellison is and has been a planner, a business consultant, an entrepreneur, an art director and designer, a student, an executive, a musician, a traveler, a father of four marvelous adult children, an inventor, a copywriter, a chef, a futurist, an evoluter, an editor and a storyteller.

Although his writing credits include everything from annual reports to TV advertising, The Luck of Madonna 13 is his first novel. Ellison currently lives with the ghost of a cat named Madonnawanna on a mountainside in California.

Biography provided by the author, October 2002.