Tim Federle is the award-winning author of one of the world's bestselling cocktail recipe books, Tequila Mockingbird , as well as the Hollywood-themed spin-off Gone with the Gin , and the novelty board book Hickory Daiquiri Dock . His most recent book, Life Is Like a Musical , is a guide to life based on his experiences on Broadway. Declared "a prolific scribe whose breezy wit isn't bound to a single genre" by the Huffington Post , Tim also writes screenplays and novels. A native of San Francisco who grew up in Pittsburgh, Tim now divides his time between New York and the internet.