Neil Ruttenberg is a writer, filmmaker, science teacher and boy hero at sixteen when he escaped from an armed killer and rescued his family. Six Gun Mojo is his first novel and builds on a career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Over the past twenty years he has written screenplays for numerous major studios. His work includes an early draft of Spiderman, Ant Man, the Disney movie Magic Island and a gangster film called Mad Dog Coll. He studied screenwriting at the University of Texas and directed a short horror film nominated for a Student Academy Award which was shown recently at SXSW.