Brian Tracy was born in eastern Canada in 1944 and grew up in California. After dropping out of high school, he traveled and worked his way around the world, eventually visiting eighty countries on six continents. His extensive personal studies in business, sales, management, marketing, and economics enabled him to move up to become the head of a 265 million company before he turned his attention to consulting, training, and personal development. He is the president of three companies with operations worldwide. Brian Tracy is married, has four children, and lives in San Diego, California.

Les Brown is a leading light in the Small Warships Group of the IPMS and the editor of their newsletter.

He is the author of a number of titles in the ShipCraft series, including two on British destroyers, and, with John Lambert, he produced two larger volumes, one on Flower' class corvettes and another on Allied torpedo boats.

Jack Canfield is the cocreator and coauthor of the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL series which has sold over 1 million copies. He is also known as one of the teachers featured in the hit movie and bestselling book THE SECRET. Jack and his wife, Inga live with their children in California, USA.