Neal Romanek is an American-British writer whose work includes film and TV, comics, and journalism. He is also one of the UK's top writers on media technology and speaks publicly on creativity and the media. He was born in Texas, educated at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and now lives in London with his wife, daughter, and several spoiled animals. Skies of Venus is his first novel. The first grown-up book he ever read was Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Lost Continent.