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 RunRepli-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.)