Malachy Doyle worked in advertising and as a teacher for children with special needs before writing children's books. He is the author of more than seventy books for children. Malachy Doyle lives in Ireland on a tiny island off the coast of Donegal, where he works full-time as a children's author.

Malachy's picture book Owen and the Mountain was a runner-up for the Children's Book Award. Malachy also writes award-winning fiction, including Georgie and Who Is Jesse Flood?

Sally Prue is the award-winning author of Cold Tom (Branford Boase Award 2002). She has also written for A&C Black in the White Wolves series.

Brad Herzog (bradherzog.com) is the author of more than thirty nonfiction books for adults and children of all ages (about everything from soccer to sportsmanship to civil rights).

Brad has watched every episode of the From Earth to the Moon miniseries several times over and traveled to Riverside, Iowa, just to visit the well-tended future gravesite of Captain James T. Kirk.