Billy Phillips was born in Toronto, Canada and moved his wife and four children to Los Angeles in 1994.In addition to being the principle shareholder in Toon Studio Licensing, he has been ghostwriting for the last fifteen years. Once Upon a Zombie is his fiction debut under his own name. Phillips owns a prolific vintage catalogue of classic fairy tale books, which is part of the intellectual property Toon Studio licenses around the world. When his son suggested he write a Zombie book under his own name, Phillips conceived the idea of merging the iconic fairy tale characters with the zombie phenomena. Zombie Cinderella and friends were born!Phillips had the privilege of lecturing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the subject of science and spirituality, sharing compelling ideas which he interweaves in his novels.