A graduate of Vancouver College, Canadian author Anton Von Stefan grew up in Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia. After working for forty-two years at the Pacific Grain Terminal on Vancouvers waterfront, the author became a full-time writer. The author has held authors readings at Coles Books in Langford, Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam and at his home in Delta, British Columbia; in North Sydney on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; and twice in the authors birth city of Vienna at Shakespeare and Company. The author is currently in negotiations to bring A Very Strange Christmas! to the world stage and is working on his third book, The Curse of Count Louie Vincenti.