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Tara Bennett

New York Times Bestselling author Tara Bennett (formerly DiLullo) is the writer of 30 official movie and TV companion books, including 'Outlander: The Official TV Series Companion,' 'Sons of Anarchy: The Official Collector's Edition' and 'Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show,' the official companion to director Des Doyle's acclaimed feature documentary of the same name. Bennett hosted the Q&A for the film's October 2014 Television Academy red carpet premiere in Los Angeles, USA. Her moderating has also included San Diego Comic Con panels such as Evangeline Lilly's 2014 event for her debut book 'The Squickerwonkers,' "Beyond' for Freeform at Stan Lee's Comic-Con and the final two '24' panels for Kiefer Sutherland's hit TV series. She has also written the official behind-the-scenes books 'The Art of Ice Age.' 'The Art of Terminator Salvation,' 'The Art of Rio,' 'The Art of Epic,' and 'The Art of 300,' and the '24: The Official Companion Guides' (seasons 1 through 6) series. Her many other companion book contributions include 'The Making of the Fantastic Four,' 'The Official Firefly Companions (Volumes 1, 2, 3),' and 'Firefly: A Celebration'. Bennett co-wrote with Paul Terry an Amazon Best Book of 2013: 'Fringe: September's Notebook,' as well as 'The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China,' 'The Art of Big Trouble in Little China,' 'The Blacklist: Elizabeth Keen's Dossier,' 'Sleepy Hollow: Creating Heroes, Demons and Monsters,' and the official 'Lost Encyclopedia' for the seminal Bad Robot TV show. A member of the Television Critic's Association, she covers TV as a U.S. Editor for the world's premiere sci-fi/fantasy publication, SFX Magazine. She has written over a thousand interviews and features for print and online publications, including the official magazines for 'The Walking Dead,' 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Once Upon a Time,' 'Grimm,' 'Lost,' '24,' 'Alias,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' plus 'SCI FI Magazine,' Today.com, Playboy.com, SYFY WIRE, Fandango/Movies.com, Fancast/Xfinity, Snakkle, TV Geek Army, WSJ Speakeasy, Newsarama, and VFXWorld.com. As a Sr. Editor & Producer for NBC/Universal's SYFY WIRE, Ms. Bennett covers TV and film, conducts on camera interviews and hosts the official podcast for USA Network's sci-fi drama, 'Colony.' Bennett has visited the sets of many film and TV productions including 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies', 'The Walking Dead', 'Lost', 'Terminator Salvation,' and 'Divergent'. As an adjunct professor, Bennett teaches writing for television and film studies classes for Rowan University. She developed a showrunners writing class which has featured guest speakers such as 'Fringe's' Jeff Pinkner and 'Scrubs' Bill Lawrence.

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