BOTY Hospital Heal Thy Self's Mark Taylor and Empire of the Sun's Stephen Zimmer

Mark Taylor is a former newspaper and trade magazine reporter who covers the business, financing and delivery of healthcare. Taylor is a former Kaiser Fellow and a co-founder of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is the author of Hospital, Heal Thyself: A Mathematician’s Plan for Saving American Lives and Billions of Dollars, available at Amazon… Mark Taylor is also one of our book of the year winners. Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and broadcaster based out of Lexington, Kentucky. He specializes in the Sorcery and fantasy genres. His visual work includes the feature film Shadows Light, shorts films such as The Sirens and Swordbearer, and the Rayden Valkyrie: Saga of a Lionheart TV Pilot. Mr. Zimmer also co-hosts the Star Chamber Show, a weekly live audio podcast featuring creative talents from around the world. If that doesn’t keep him busy enough, Stephen Zimmer is the editor-in-chief of Seventh Star Press, a small press with multiple imprints, Stephen founded and co-directs The Imaginarium Convention, a 12th year annual convention held in Louisville, Kentucky for writers and storytellers of all genres. His latest novel is Embrace of the Sun. The website is www.stephenzimmer.com Visit the Chicago Writers Association at chicagowrites.org