R.S. MELLETTE, originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, now lives in San Clemente, California, where he toils away at turning his imaginary friends into real ones. While working on Xena: Warrior Princess, he created and wrote The Xena Scrolls'' for Universal's New Media department and was part of the team that won a Golden Reel Award for ADR editing. When an episode aired based on his Xena Scrolls' characters, it became the first intellectual property to move from the internet to television. Mellette has worked and blogged for the film festival Dances With Films as well as the novelist collective, From The Write Angle, and he is on the board of the L.A. region of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators.