A. Scott Pearson

I'm an author and filmmaker and CEO of American Blackguard.  I'm the founder of Killer Nashville, an organization devoted to writers of the mystery, thriller, and suspense genres.  My latest projects are a feature-length documentary "One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith" story and a music CD XO with mystery writer Jeffery Deaver.  You can also follow me on Wordpress, Twitter, and Facebook.

Clay Stafford is a bestselling author, filmmaker (producer, director, writer), and nationally-recognized public speaker.  He began his career as a child actor of stage and screen. The bulk of his career has been in touring professional theater, but he has appeared onscreen in such productions as "Days of Our Lives" and "Clue: Movies, Murder and Mystery with Martin Mull."  As a film development and production executive, he has worked at Universal Studios, PBS, and now at American Blackguard Entertainment where he has been responsible for green-lighting numerous national and international projects. While at Universal, he had the privilege of offering studio support to such productions as "Miami Vice," "MacGyver," "Murder She Wrote," "Legal Eagles," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Magnum PI," and "Amazing Stories," among many others.  His retellings of American children’s classics released through Dalmatian Press have sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone. His films and literary works have been released in over 14 languages.  Having earned his MFA in creative writing, Clay has been a university professor at the University of Miami and the University of Tennessee, among others, and a keynote speaker for such diverse organizations as the U.S. Department of Defense, the Financial Executives Institute, and the Chongqing Acrobats of China.  Clay Stafford has served on the board of nonprofit organizations such as Mystery Writers of America, Nashville Adult Literacy Council, and Watkins College of Art & Design, and he has been a film advisor to the Tennessee state legislature.  As an academic, he designed the original two-year college film program at Miami-Dade in South Florida.  In 2006, he founded Killer Nashville, an internationally-attended, volunteer-run annual conference, focusing on crime, mystery, thriller and suspense literature.  Having previously lived in all corners of the U.S. and having traveled extensively in between with his work, he now resides peacefully and content in Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, a town the New York Times calls "Malibu East" and the National Trust for Historic Preservation calls one of the "most romantic Main Streets" on the planet, where he writes and creates literature and film projects through American Blackguard.