Steven Banbury grew up surrounded by farmland before eventually moving to a part of California with notably fewer cows. Somewhere along the way he married his legend of a wife, adopted their annoyingly cute dog, and developed a penchant for writing he hasn’t seemed to shake. His debut novel, The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night, was an Indie Bestseller, an Indie Next List pick, and an ABA Indies Introduce Kids title.

The sequel, The Pumpkin Princess and the Buried Castle, launches Fall 2025.