About the Author

By day, Finn J.D. John teaches New Media Communications at Oregon State University, with special emphasis on the creation of trans-media storytelling franchises. By night (and by weekend, and by very-early-morning, and by every-other-minute-of-his-free-time) he produces the twice-weekly Pulp-Lit Storytellers Club podcast and the thrice-weekly Offbeat Oregon History podcast. He writes a locally syndicated weekly newspaper column titled "Offbeat Oregon History" (http: //offbeatoregon.com), which runs regularly in 16 community newspapers in his home state, and is the author of Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, published in 2012 by The History Press. Finn is the principal creative at Pulp-Lit Productions, a trans-media publishing house specializing in early-20th-century novels published in serial form in pulp magazines. He can be reached via Twitter at @offbeatoregon or by e-mail at finn@offbeatoregon.com.