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The Pretender Creators

We love to entertain – been doing it our whole lives – and for the past 30 years have made it our passion, our career path.

Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle created,co-wrote and produced the Pretender. Nearly 20 years later they have also written 2 Pretender books, Rebirth and Saving Luke.

Steven and Craig at SCAD Atlanta on February 7, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Pretender Lives

For us, many of these bio things come off as self-serving smoke blown up the skirts of the artists whose names are atop the page. They usually entail the what we have done – the accomplishments, awards, blah, blah, blah (and yes, we’ve put that in here too, ‘cause we are proud of it and a little smoke up the skirt always feels good), but more importantly for us is the why we do it.

All the info on the real PTB’s can be found on the official the Pretender Lives site.

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Craig and Steve talking about the Pretender books on Slice of Sci Fi

Who is the woman at the train station?

Mar 27, 2014 | News, The Pretender Lives

Who is the woman at the train station? A bullet whizzed by Jarod’s ear shattering the front leg of the stallion. Horse and rider cartwheeled, coming to rest with the broken stallion atop her leg. Jarod pulled up. She struggled, to no avail. She knew she was trapped...

Any idea how this got out?

Mar 21, 2014 | News, The Pretender Lives

To: Steve Mitchell From: Craig Van Sickle Re: The Saving Luke Poster Any idea how this got out? To: Craig Van Sickle From: Steve Mitchell Re: The Saving Luke Poster No! And hopefully this is just a one shot. If we start seeing this in other spots...