Stephen BilliasStephen Billias is the author of seven published science fiction/fantasy novels, including The American Book of the Dead and Quest for the Thirty-Six, both published by Warner Books. Mr. Billias has also written several screenplays. In 2005 he sold afilm treatment with director/writer John Harrison to The Walt Disney Company for Disney's Animated Features Division. In 2009, Mr. Billias co-produced the documentary Seeking the 36 with director/writer Dennis Lanson. Mr. Billias lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He is married and has a daughter Sophia, a law school student at Case Western Reserve. His hobbies include backpacking trips to the Grand Canyon and the Sierra Nevada range, and the practice of Shintaido, a Japanese body movement and martial art. From 2006 to 2016, Mr. Billias and his wife Bela Breslau operated the Shintaido Farm, a center for the practice of Shintaido. Read More Read Less