Chuck Klosterman, currently a music, film, & culture critic for Ohio's "Akron Beacon Journal", began his career with "The Forum" in Fargo, North Dakota. He lives in Akron, Ohio, where he once consumed nothing but McDonald's Chicken McNuggets for seven straight days.Paul McCusker was born in 1958 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Bowie, Maryland, outside of Washington D. C. He graduated college with a degree in Journalism; his first works were dramatic plays. McCusker's dramatic writing also extended to musicals. He was nominated for a Dove Award for A Time for Christmas, with music and lyrics by David Clydesdale, Steve Amerson & Lowell Alexander. His novels include The Mill House… and Epiphany (nominated for a ECPA Gold Medallion Award) and You Say Tomato with best-selling British writer Adrian Plass. He has also authored The Mill House, and its sequel A Season of Shadows. His newest project is his medical thriller, TSI: The Gabon Virus, co-written with Dr. Walt Larimore.
Robert Elmer is the author of several other series for young adult readers, including Adventures Down Under and The Young Underground. He got his writing start as a newspaper reporter but has written everything from magazine columns to radio and TV commercials. Now he writes full-time from his home in rural northwest Washington state, where he lives with his wife, Ronda, and their three busy teenagers.