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Vale Anoa’i , daughter of wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Afa “The Wild Samoan”, is the author of seven books, WXW Rage TV host, board member of Usos- the Samoan Family Foundation, creator of Vale’s Buried Treasures, bellydancer, actress (The Wrestler, Rocky Balboa, Shooter, Down With The Boogey, and others), and businesswoman. From a very young age, she was constantly surrounded by the colorful, often outrageous, wild characters of the professional wrestling world, and has traveled around the world, setting her imagination on fire and providing her with countless subjects to write about. Her 7th book, Growing Up Wrestling, is a memoir of what it was like for her to grow up in that unique wrestling world, full of stories about different wrestlers and experiences as the daughter of a giant wrestling dynasty family.
Born and raised in Everett, Massachusetts and spent twenty-three years in northern Virginia working for the Central Intelligence Agency. Scott is now retired and lives in Gainesville, Florida as a full-time writer along with his wife and fellow author Alison Beightol and his stepdaughter. He has written The Vampire Hunters trilogy, about humans fighting the undead in Washington D.C., as well asRotter World, which details the struggle between humans and vampires during a zombie apocalypse. In September 2014, his fifth novel will be published; Yeitso is his homage to the giant monster movies of the 1950s that he loved watching as a kid. Scott is currently working on the next two books in the Rotter World saga and a series of young adult post-apocalyptic fiction.