Joe Siple is the award-winning author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride, which was named Book of the Year by the Maxy Awards, won the National Indie Excellence Award (for Friendship), and was a finalist in several others. Other books in the Mr. Murray McBride Trilogy include The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride and forthcoming The First Wish of Mr. Murray McBride. Siple lives in Fort Collins, CO.