Featured in FORBES, LISA KASTNER is the Founder and CEO of Running Wild, LLC which consists of Running Wild Press where they publish great stories that don't fit neatly in a box and RIZE Press where they publish great genre stories written by underrepresented groups. Running Wild has been honoured with two best of 2019 and two best of 2020 books according to Kirkus Reviews as well as several starred reviews and additional acclaim. Lisa was named to NEW YORK WEEKLY’s Top Ten Females to Watch in 2021, and LA WIRE’s Top 10 Businesses to Watch in 2021. Written under the pen name of Kali Metis, her dark fiction/magical realism novel, CURE, was called, “A study of otherness, identity, and belonging in the shape of a high-stakes supernatural adventure, Metis changes up the werewolf genre in a beguiling mix of medieval and modern. With a touch of romance and a good dose of danger”, by —Lee Murray, USA TODAY Bestselling Author and Bram Stoker Award® winner and “Kali Metis reinvents the werewolf novel in a compelling and terrifying way, and brings a new heroine to the forefront! Very highly recommended!” by Jonathan Maberry, NY TIMES bestselling author of THE WOLFMAN and KAGEN THE DAMNED.

TONE MILAZZO is the author of PICKING UP THE GHOST, THE FAITH MACHINE, and the upcoming ESPionage Role-Playing Game.
 Stories have always been Tone’s first love. When the first hunter told another about the one who got away, stories made us human. Stories lead to understanding. Fiction, religion, biographies, gossip, gaming, and history, it all goes into the slow cooker and outcome stories. To those ends, Tone’s been around, professionally speaking. Marine, taxi driver, teacher, assistant to scientists, and coder. This breadth of experience has given Tone a little knowledge about a lot of things, good and bad. He lives in San Diego with his wife Melissa Milazzo (author of TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE) and two dogs. All of whom are more capable than he is.

Stunned by her brother’s apparent suicide, Luna Auber discovers that he has not only left her the keys to his apartment but also a trip to Sweden. Per his instructions, Luna is to explore their unexpected heritage of the Birke, an iconic female Viking warrior. Following her beloved brother’s lead, Luna will soon discover that the terrible shakes he suffered from were misdiagnosed. The shaking was in fact the early stages of his transformation. Her brother was a shapeshifter. A lycanthrope. And her own shaking has just begun. Luna will be forced to make a choice that could either transform or destroy the world as she knows it.

“CURE by Kali Metis is a howling romp that seamlessly blends various voices, genres, and time periods without losing its effortless style. An amalgam of myth, historical fiction, romance, folklore, and horror, Metis cooks delicious conflict into every page as her main character, Luna Auber, bakes cupcakes by day but shifts into something slightly more sinister by night. Fans will surely hope this is the initial book of a series because CURE is worth reading by moonlight and sinking one’s teeth into.” –Suzanne Samples, author of FRONTAL MATTER and STARGAZING IN SOLITUDE

Lisa Kastner, AKA "Kali Metis," in conversation with Tone Milazzo