Stephen Billias is the author of seven published science fiction/fantasy novels, including The American Book of the Dead and Quest for the Thirty-Six, and one collection of literar...view moreStephen Billias is the author of seven published science fiction/fantasy novels, including The American Book of the Dead and Quest for the Thirty-Six, and one collection of literary short stories, A Book of Fields, from Odeon Press in 2019. Stephen has also written several screenplays. In 2005 he sold a film treatment with director/writer John Harrison to The Walt Disney Company for Disney's Animated Features Division. In 2009, Stephen co-produced the documentary Seeking the 36 with director/writer Dennis Lanson. From 2006 to 2016, Mr. Billias and his wife Bela Breslau operated the Shintaido Farm, a center for the practice the Japanese body movement and martial art Shintaido, on River Road in Deerfield.view less