Central Arkansas author, Shannon Taylor Vannatter is a stay-at-home mom/pastor's wife. She lives in a town of around 100, if you count a few cows. Vannatter won the Inspirational Readers Choice Award in the short contemporary category, the 18th Annual Heartsong Awards #3 Favorite New Author and #1 Favorite Contemporary Award.Don Bassingthwaite is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. His latest books are "The Yellow Silk," "Mistress of the Night" (co-authored with Dave Gross), and the books of The Dragon Below trilogy: "The Binding Stone," "The Grieving Tree," and "The Killing Song," He lives in Toronto.