Before delving into Fairy Tale Land to write The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom and its sequel, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle, Christopher Healy held numerous other jobs, including actor, ad copywriter, toy store display designer, fact-checker, dishwasher, journalist, costume shop clothing-stitcher, children's entertainment reviewer, and haunted house zombie (though not in that order). He commutes to Fairy Tale Land from his home in New Jersey (not too, too far from where he grew up in New York City), where he lives with his wife, two children, and a dog named Duncan. The Hero's Guide series is his first work of fiction.