Steven Paul Leiva

STEVEN PAUL LEIVA has toiled for many years in the hills and valleys of Hollywood as a producer and writer, working with the great and the not-so-great, who were often, oddly, one and the same. He produced the animation for Space Jam, pairing the witty Bugs Bunny with the sweaty Michael Jordan. His play, Made on the Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been performed in America by such actors as Paul Provenza, Robert Picardo and John Billingsley. His novelization, The 12 Dogs of Christmas, based on his own film adaptation of the best-selling picture book of the same name, won the Scribe Award for the Best Young Adult Adapted Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. Blood is Pretty: The First Fixxer Adventure, which introduced his mysterious, Hollywood-based hero, has been followed up with the second Fixxer adventure, Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army. Steven also instigated and organized RAY BRADBURY WEEK IN LOS ANGELES in 2010 in celebration of the literary master's 90th birthday, and directed Bradbury's one-act play, The Better Part of Wisdom, starring James Cromwell, as part of the celebrations. His first science fiction novel, Traveling in Space was published in October of 2011 by Blüroof Press. Leiva has written the occasional essay for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Amanda, and his daughter, Miranda, who are known collectively as the Andas. You can contact the author at Firstfixxer@aol.com.