Jerry Boyd
In the quiet hills of the Ozarks, long before he ever wrote about alien spacecrafts or talking raccoons, Jerry Boyd was a man of many trades—machinist, electronics technician, short-order cook, and stay-at-home dad. He didn’t come from a publishing pedigree or follow a roadmap to literary fame. He just sat down one day, after his daughter had grown up and the house had stilled, and started writing the kind of story he wanted to read. That small act of curiosity sparked what would become Bob’s Saucer Repair, the first book in a sprawling, wildly imaginative sci-fi comedy series that found an unlikely home on bookshelves—and in the hearts of…