TJ Sullivan is an award-winning independent journalist whose work has appeared in scores of daily publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Dallas Morning News. A recipient of the the Sigma Delta Chi Award, as well as top honors from Best of the West, the Associated Press News Executive Council and the Los Angeles Press Club, Sullivan worked in newsrooms for 15 years prior to embarking on a second career as an author. He continues to write trend stories about real estate and has lectured on reporting techniques at conferences conducted by The Poynter Institute and the Society of Professional Journalists. He served in 2006 as an adviser to The Working Press, a college internship program sponsored by SPJ and is currently teaching a journalism course at California State University, Northridge. Sullivan also has taught journalism courses and coached writers at UCLA's student newspaper, The Daily Bruin. He has completed two novels and is pursuing their publication. He blogs at TJ Sullivan in LA and lives in West Los Angeles. E-mail