Steven Paul Leiva
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Eclectic Novelist: Comedic, Thriller, Fantasy, Political, Sci-Fi, and Film to Novel Adaptations.
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Upcoming Releases:
Extraordinary Voyages Made on the Moon, a Novella (Coming Soon) The Reluctant Heterosexual (late 2021-Spring 2022) The Definition of Luck (Coming 2022) |
Author Bio:
Before publishing ten critically acclaimed novels, 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; manager/producer Ken Kragen, 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 Space Jam, putting 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 nine novels, a novella, and a book of essays.
His work has been praised by literary great Ray Bradbury, Oscar-winning film producer Richard Zanuck, NY Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Diane Ackerman, and Star Trek actor John Billingsley, the greatest bookworm in Hollywood. 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; 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 political fantasia, Imp; 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 Vern; his mashup of monster movie spoof with political comedy, Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy; and his latest, Bully 4 Love, a rather odd love story featuring love rejected, love ignored, love revealed, and pizza! (pub date, May 7, 2021)
An audio book for his acclaimed "CREATURE FEATURE", read by Juliana Dever and Seamus Dever, is available now!
You can find more about Leiva and read his blogs at https://tinyurl.com/ydgpkps8
Leiva produced the animation for Space Jam, putting 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 nine novels, a novella, and a book of essays.
His work has been praised by literary great Ray Bradbury, Oscar-winning film producer Richard Zanuck, NY Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Diane Ackerman, and Star Trek actor John Billingsley, the greatest bookworm in Hollywood. 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; 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 political fantasia, Imp; 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 Vern; his mashup of monster movie spoof with political comedy, Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy; and his latest, Bully 4 Love, a rather odd love story featuring love rejected, love ignored, love revealed, and pizza! (pub date, May 7, 2021)
An audio book for his acclaimed "CREATURE FEATURE", read by Juliana Dever and Seamus Dever, is available now!
You can find more about Leiva and read his blogs at https://tinyurl.com/ydgpkps8
Acclaim for Leiva's Work:
“This is the most horrible thing I’ve ever heard — and that’s a good thing! It’s screamingly funny and probably one of the best performed and produced audiobooks I’ve ever heard...and I have tinnitus." ~ Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre
"Steven Leiva not only promises but delivers. Bravo!" -- Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.
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