Vital statistics for Stuart Gibbs:
Birthdate: June 11 (Please do not feel obligated to send presents)
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Place that he really spent most of his childhood: San Antonio, TX
Place that he lives now: Los Angeles, CA
Interesting thing he did before becoming a writer: Worked at a zoo
Large, semi-aquatic rodents he was at one point one of the world’s foremost experts on: Capybaras
Reason he was one of the world’s foremost experts on capybaras: No one else was studying them
Movies he has written that have actually been made: See Spot Run, Repli-Kate, Showdown
Animated movies he worked on: Anastasia, Open Season 3, Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (yes, another Three Musketeers project)
TV networks that have hired him to develop TV shows for them: ABC, Fox, Disney, Nickelodeon
Did any of those TV shows get on the air? No
Hobbies: Hiking, cycling, skiing, canyoneering, traveling
Does he have any hobbies that don’t involve being outside? Not really
Wait, what’s canyoneering? It’s kind of like hiking, except you do it in a canyon and occasionally, you have to rappel down a waterfall.
Wow, sounds cool. It is. It’s really cool.
Favorite place to travel to: Anywhere in Africa to go on safari
Wife: Suzanne
Children: Dashiell and Violet
Next books: “Spy School” will be out in spring of 2012. And “Traitor’s Chase,” the sequel to “The Last Musketeer,” will be out in summer 2012.
You can reach Stu at:
stuart.gibbs@rocketmail.com
Or send mail the old fashioned way to:
International Creative Management
10250 Constellation Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(Warning: It can take a few months to reach Stu the old-fashioned way. But he really appreciates the letters and tries to respond to each one.)
