Michael Bishop is the author of the Nebula Award-winning No Enemy But Time, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-winning Unicorn Mountain, and six previous Fairwood Press/Kudzu Planet Production titles, including Brittle Innings, Who Made Stevie Crye?, and Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas. Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls is his first novel expressly for young persons, "whatever their age." He and his wife Jeri live in Pine Mountain, Georgia, with far too many books.