Let's make this birthday one to remember.

62 years old (Born on November 12, 1962)

Happy Birthday, Neal Shusterman! May your cake be taller than the Skyjacker Trilogy flights and sweeter than victory at picking up California Young Reader Medals. Your creativity continues to SHWA us all with amazement—here’s hoping this birthday out-creeps Darkness Creeping, in every delightfully spooky way possible.

With Star Shards shining bright and Dark Fusion mysteries unfolding nonstop beneath that wonderful mind of yours—we congratulate you on another fantastic year filled with storytelling brilliance. You keep readers everywhere guessing what's next; just remember today: plot twists belong strictly inside books—and not among candles burning atop a very crowded cake!