By day, Christy Noel is a senior hardware engineer. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children, ages nine and twelve. Work and family activities consume most of her energy. However, any spare time she scrapes together goes to writing, playing racquetball, and wondering about things like the curvature of the space-time continuum. She also has two feline assistants who critique her writing when they aren't lounging in the sun.

Lee Holden has been writing fiction since he was five years old when he began forging kindergarten absence excuse notes from his parents. Creative writing proved invaluable enabling him to obtain an MBA and achieve a successful thirty year career in banking and finance explaining the positive attributes of negative earnings. He is currently contemplating a second career as an objective reporter for The New York Times.

Susan Feary works with the elderly as a scheme Co-coordinator to a block of forty two sheltered housing flats, and she also serves in the local Courts as a Justice of the Peace. When she has spare time, she loves to write, and she is currently working on her memoirs. She has had a couple articles published and looks forward to doing more. She is married and lives in Suffolk, England.

Paula Rugen is a retired third grade teacher who has discovered a passion for children's writing. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she is active in a local children's writing peer critique group. She also enjoys golf and travel.

Jared Holden is a skilled assistant golf professional and avid golfer who lives with his wife and two kids in El Reno, Oklahoma.