Robert J. Peterson is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and founder of the science-fiction publishing imprint California Coldblood Books. He's the author of two novels, "The Odds" and "Omegaball" and has written for newspapers and websites all over the country, including the Marin Independent Journal, PerformInk, Space.com, the Telluride Daily Planet, CC2KOnline, and Geekscape.net. He's appeared as a pop-culture guru on the web talk shows Comics on Comics, The Fanboy Scoop, Collider Heroes, Screen Junkies TV Fights, and Fandom Planet. In addition to his writing, Robert is a graphic designer and web developer who specializes in open-source technologies like Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal. As a designer, he has built postcards, business cards, logos, as well as the mood boards for the feature films "Mr. Jones" and "Rebirth".