Eric Elfman is an American writer with a special interest in science fiction, fantasy, UFOs, and paranormal events. He is the author of 13 books for middle-grade and young adult readers, including the ''Accelerati Trilogy'', which he co-wrote with Neal Shusterman. Among Elfman's other books are ''Almanac of Alien Encounters'' ( Random House, 2001), ''Almanac of the Gross, Disgusting, and Totally Repulsive'' (Random House, 1994, an ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Readers), and ''Very Scary Almanac'' (Random House, 1993). Elfman has been on the faculty of the

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Children's Writers Workshop, sponsored by the

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and directed by Andrea Brown. He has also presented writing advice at the Ventana Sierra Advanced Writing Workshop in

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, directed by author Ellen Hopkins. As a private writing coach, Elfman has worked with the ''New York Times'' bestselling author Veronica Rossi (''Under the Never Sky''), the award-winning author

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(''Yaqui Delgado''), Barry Wolverton (''Neversink''), Stacey Lee (''Under a Painted Sky'', 2015), and many other writers.

Bibliography

*Series **Accelerati Trilogy (with Neal Shusterman) ***''Tesla's Attic'' (2014) ***''Edison's Alley'' (2015) ***''Hawking's Hallway'' (2016) *Novels **''Noah's Ark'' (1999) *Collections **''Three-minute Thrillers'' (1994) **''More Three-minute Thrillers'' (1995) **''Super Three-minute Thrillers'' (1996) *Series contributed to **''Our town: a novelization (X Files)'' (1997) *Non fiction **''The Very Scary Almanac'' (1993) **''Almanac of the Gross, Disgusting & Totally Repulsive'' (1994) **''Almanac of Alien Encounters'' (2001) **''Beyond Genius: The 12 Essential Traits of Today's Renaissance Men'' (with Scott Griffiths; 2012)

References

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