Leslie J. Wyatt is a freelance writer for children and adults. In addition to numerous publishing credits, she is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and graduate of The Institute of Children's Literature. Leslie lives with her husband and six children in their 1883 farmhouse in rural Missouri.
Samantha Rose is an Emmy award-winning television writer and a New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling ghostwriter whose titles have been selected as Reese’s Book Club and Target Bookmarked Picks and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah and Harper’s Bazaar. She is the principal of YellowSkyMedia, a boutique editorial agency in Petaluma, California, where she lives with her son. Her new memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, is her first book written under her own name.
Maureen Anne Jennings has worn the hats of a journalist, copywriter, editor, publishing consultant, media relations manager, book festival director, and Fillmore East staffer. She owns more than 100 hats, not all of them work related. After the obligatory waitressing during college, she squandered a few years behind the bar at various dives in lower Manhattan. She also owned and operated a pub in northern California. Be careful what you write about. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Traveler’s Tales Italy, Cartwheels on the Faultline, and Saltwater Sweetwater as well as various periodicals. She graduated from Fordham University summa cum laude in comparative literature and still reads as many novels as she possibly can. She
