Paul Black always wanted to make movies, but a career in advertising sidetracked him. Born and raised in Chicago, he is the international award-winning author of The Tels, Soulware, Nexus Point, The Presence, The Samsara Effect, Cool Brain, Dark Slide and Being Human. Human Being. He has twice won both the Independent Publishers Book Award and ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. He has also won The London and New York Book Festivals twice, and has been on the Barnes & Noble Regional Best Seller list. His first book The Tels won the Writer’s Digest Book Award for Genre Fiction and was optioned for television.