Renee Asher Pickup is Marine Corps vet and mellowed out punk living in Southern California. Renee writes fiction about bad things happening to flawed people, nonfiction that is critical of the status quo, and truly believes From Dusk Till Dawn changed her life. You can find her blogging at Do Some Damage every Friday, or having a drink and talking about the highs, lows, and horrors of romantic comedies at her podcast Mandatory Happy. Her novel with Andrez Bergen: Black Sails, Disco Inferno is available now from Open Books.