ABOUT STEVEN PAUL LEIVA

Before publishing eleven critically acclaimed works of fiction, award-winning and Amazon Bestselling author Steven Paul Leiva spent over twenty years in the entertainment industry as a writer and producer. He worked with such talent as Academy Award-winning producer Richard Zanuck; director Ivan Reitman; literary legend and screenwriter Ray Bradbury; Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz; Looney Tunes legend Chuck Jones; and Animation Feature Academy Award-winning director Brad Bird. He even lent his voice to the Academy Award shortlisted (placing in the top ten) animated short, "The Indescribable Nth."
Leiva produced the animation for the original Space Jam, starring the very tall Michael Jordan and the relatively short Bugs Bunny. For this produaction, Leiva put together an ad hoc animation studio for Warner Bros and executive producer Ivan Reitman in three days over the phone.
During this time, he wrote novels and a play, Made on the Moon, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, receiving a four-star review from The Scotsman.

After Space Jam, Leiva decided to concentrate on writing novels. Since 2003, he has published ten novels, a novella, and a book of essays.

His work has been praised by literary great Ray Bradbury, Oscar-winning film producer Richard Zanuck, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Diane Ackerman, New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry, comedy great Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theater, USA Today Bestselling Author Jean Rabe, Star Trek: Enterprise actor John Billingsley, Australian philosopher Russell Blackford, and British physicist and author Stephen Webb. He has received the Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

A traveler among several genres, his books include his witty Hollywood thrillers, Blood is Pretty and Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army, both featuring The Fixxer; his novelization of the indie family film, The 12 Dogs of Christmas (a Scribe Award-Winner); his Sci-Fi satire of first-contact told from the point-of-view of the aliens, Traveling in Space; his humorous look at happy-ever-afters, By the Sea; his surreal IMP: A Political Fantasia; Extraordinary Voyages, a compilation of fiction and non-fiction including his bizarre, possibly audacious, somewhat sci-fi novella, Made on the Moon (based on his play); Journey to Where, a contemporary "scientific romance" written in the tradition of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne; his mashup of a monster movie spoof with political comedy, Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy; Bully for Love, a rather odd love story featuring love rejected, love ignored, love revealed, and cuttlefish pizza; his novel of the sometimes comic conflict between ancient procreating bodies and modern culture, The Reluctant Heterosexual: A Tragicomedy in Four Movements a Prelude and an Interlude; and The Definition of Luck or The Post-Modern Prometheus, a work of contrarian science fiction. 2024 will see the publising of Right: A Protrait of Controversy, an ahistorical novel.