Susan Polp has always been fascinated by vampires and legends, and she has always wanted to be an author, so she used her fascination to create a novel. When her daughter was diagnosed with a rare type of dwarfism known as achondroplasia, Susan had the idea to mix fact with fiction to help raise awareness in a complete new and exciting way instead of through statistics and dull facts. Susan now lives in Leeds, England, with her three children, and she dreams of a world in which disabled children may be allowed to be heroes themselves.
Lucie Costin-Hall, MA, currently works with Jackie Gardner-Nix as a cofacilitator of the Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM) workshops for patients at two teaching hospitals in Toronto, as well as for patients at numerous distant sites throughout Ontario via the interactive conferencing technology of the Ontario Telehealth Network (OTN). It is estimated that over the last five years more than 1,500 chronic pain patients have taken these courses.