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| Born | March 6, 1968 Torrance, California, United States |
| Occupation | Editor Short story writer Screenwriter Newspaper reporter Film critic Copywriter |
| Genres | Suspense Horror Fantasy Science fiction Westerns |
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www.richarddeanstarr.com |
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Richard Dean Starr is an American entrepreneur, editor, and author of fiction and graphic novels whose work has featured characters including Hellboy, Zorro, The Phantom, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Avenger, The Green Hornet's Kato, and Wyatt Earp, among others. He is also a former journalist and film critic who has written for both newspapers and magazines. In addition to his fiction and non-fiction he is a former leading copywriter and an expert on small-business marketing.
As of January, 2011, Starr is the CEO and co-founder of the parent company of eRead.com. Driven by the slogans, "The Ultimate eBook Store" and "Read and Change the World", eRead.com will feature one of the largest independent print and ebook inventories available anywhere. A portion of all sales from eRead.com will go directly to select non-profit literacy and educational causes around the world, areas specifically championed by the company's founders. The beta site launch for eRead.com will take place in the first quarter of 2012, with the official launch to follow shortly thereafter.
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Starr was born in Torrance, California, but spent thirteen years in Florida. He returned to Los Angeles in 2006 and was named Special Projects Coordinator for Moonstone Books in 2007. Starr recently edited Tales of Zorro, the first anthology of original Zorro short fiction ever authorized by Zorro Productions, Inc. The collection was released in September 2008 as a mass-market trade edition featuring cover art by Douglas Klauba. A limited, signed edition, illustrated by Ruben Procopio and with cover art by Sergio Martinez, was released in the fall of 2009. The second volume, More Tales of Zorro, was released as a mass-market trade paperback in the summer of 2011. A signed, limited edition hardcover of that book will be released in 2012.