Phillip T. Stephens

Ask Stephens a personal question and you'll never get a straight answer, which may be one of the reasons he was selected one of the top Texas liars three years running. At best he'll tell you he's "biographically impaired." He may or may not live with his wife Carol in Austin, Texas where they shelter foster cats and spin even more conflicting biographies to throw creditors off his scent. because, as anyone in the writing business knows (at least they do half a year into sales on their first book), few people get rich writing novels.

Stephens is certainly not in the business of getting rich. The two novels in his La Joie dans L'enfer series, Raising Hell and The Worst Noel, were written purely labors of love and are gifts to the world at a dollar apiece.