Lincoln Peirce was born in Iowa on October 23, 1963. He studied art at Colby College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He taught art and coached baseball for three years at a New York high school. He is a cartoonist/writer and the creator of the comic strip Big Nate, which appears in more than 200 U.S. newspapers. His title's, Big Nate Doodlepalooza and Big Nate: I Can't Take It! made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. Big Nate in the Zone and Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2014.Anne Cameron got the original idea for this book after reading an article about fulgurites, which are formed when lightning strikes sand… with such ferocity that it melts the particles together and forms amazing, rootlike glass tubes. What would happen, she wondered, if lightning bolts could be caught deliberately, by expert lightning catchers?Anne Cameron lives in England.
Tara Miller is a writer and resource developer for CoachNet International Ministries. She was formerly the small groups pastor at Pathways Church in Denver, Colorado.Together with Jennifer Peppers she founded Flow (www.findingtheflow.org), whose mission is to resource emerging leaders who facilitate group conversations that lead people closer to God.