Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, actress-comedienne Georja Umano, and two Jack Russell Terrorists, Marcello and Roxie. His first book under the LaPuerta imprint was How to Lie with Charts, followed by the first novel in the Rollo Hemphill series: My Inflatable Friend, to which Rubber Babes and Farnsworth's Revenge are sequels. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, and Film Independent (FIND), as well as a past director of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kozinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). He blogs about male-centered comic fiction at www.boychiklit.com.