Steven Paul Leiva

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Steven Paul Leiva spent many years in Hollywood as a producer and writer working with such talents as Gary Kurtz, Richard D. Zanuck, Chuck Jones, Brad Bird, and Ray Bradbury.

For the past 20 years he has been concentrating on writing novels in various genres and had a play debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

He has written a number of reviews and essays for various publications, including a series of pieces on Ray Bradbury, which have been collected into a book. In 2010 he created and organized Ray Bradbury Week in Los Angeles, a week of events that honored and celebrated the literary master on his 90th birthday.

Books by Steven Paul Leiva

Image of By The Sea
Image of Traveling In Space
Image of Searching for Ray Bradbury: Writings about the Writer and the Man
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Image of Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army (The Fixxer Book 2)
Image of Blood is Pretty (A Fixxer Adventure)

Book Reviews by Steven Paul Leiva

Image of Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers
Author(s):
Bob Powell
Genre(s):
Graphic Novels & Comics, Anthologies, Dark Horse

Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers

October 19, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

There was a time when, in certain quarters, comic books were reviled. Currently, in certain quarters, comic books are revered.

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Image of Frank Frazetta's Adventures of the Snowman
Author(s):
Frank Frazetta
Genre(s):
Graphic Novels & Comics, Dark Horse

Frank Frazetta's Adventures of the Snowman

October 12, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“Talent is always a joy to witness. But young talent like this is a very special joy.”

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Image of The Hotel Years
Author(s):
Joseph Roth
Translator(s):
Michael Hofmann
Genre(s):
Literary Nonfiction, Journalism

The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars

September 8, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“his writing can be luxuriated in.”

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Image of Girl Waits with Gun (A Kopp Sisters Novel)
Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Women’s Fiction, Adventure

Girl Waits with Gun

August 31, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us,

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Image of Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core
Author(s):
Bobby Nash
Illustrator(s):
Jamie Chase
Genre(s):
Graphic Novels & Comics, Fantasy

Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core

August 31, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

Grand adventure stories often take place in exotic locations among exotic peoples and feature exotic creatures.

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Image of Wally Wood's EC Comics Artisan Edition
Author(s):
Al Feldstein
Genre(s):
Comic-Based

Wally Wood's EC Comics Artisan Edition

August 6, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

"[a] fine [example] of the art of comic books . . ."

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Image of Wind/Pinball: Two novels
Author(s):
Haruki Murakami
Translator(s):
Ted Goosen
Genre(s):
Asian

Wind/Pinball

August 3, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“a telling—and  pleasant—gateway into the talent of an artist well-worth knowing.”

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Image of The Nearest Thing to Life (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Author(s):
James Wood
Genre(s):
Fiction

The Nearest Thing to Life

April 27, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“a pleasure to read.”

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