Andrew J. Heller is a retired criminal defense attorney with several Oz credits. He is the co-author with L. Frank Baum of King Rinkitink (Baum, having died in 1919, raised no objections), the short story “Puppet Mistress of Oz”, wherein the secret machinations of Glinda the Good (Good? Hah! That’s a laugh!) are at last laid bare, which will be included in the forthcoming Lost Tales of Oz anthology, of which he is a co-editor, is presently at work on another Oz novel (without L. Frank Baum),  a prequel to Puppet Mistress, and is responsible for several more Oz stories which have mercifully faded during his second or possibly third childhood (he can’t remember which), and has never written a longer sentence than this one, that he can recall.
 
Heller is also credited (or debited) with three alternate histories, one concerning the First World War (Gray Tide in the East) and its sequel, and another dealing with the consequences of an  American Civil War in which the Confederacy won its independence (If the North Had Won the Civil War). He is the father of two adult children and a chinchilla, and now divides his time between raising Madagascar Giant Hissing Cockroaches for the overseas disgusting bug trade and folding himself up inside a sofa-bed and pretending he is an astronaut in the Mercury space program.