Sydell Voeller grew up in Washington State, but has lived in Oregon for over thirty years. Throughout her twenty-plus writing career, her sixteen published novels for teens and adults have reflected her love for the Pacific Northwest’s ocean beaches, inlets and waterways, evergreen forests, and mountains. She and her husband enjoy camping, reading, amateur astronomy, and spending time with their three grandchildren and one pampered feline. Formerly a registered nurse, Sydell now teaches writing correspondence courses, sponsored by the Long Ridge Writer’s Institute in West Redding, Connecticut, for the past twelve years.

Books by Ann Herrick: The Ugly Girl Party Boss of the Whole Sixth Grade My Bad Boy Summer Someone Like Him The Next Great Rock Star! Also Known as Lard Butt The Farewell Season My Fake Summer Boyfriend Life, Love, and Surviving High School The Perfect Guy All's Fair in Love and Words Hey, Nobody's Perfect How to Survive a Summer Romance (Or Two) Someone Like Him Snowed In Together The Real Me Trading Faces Ann Herrick is the author of several books and short stories for kids and teens. Her books have won several awards, such as the ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Readers award and an IRA/CBC Children’s Choice award. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as 'Teen, Listen, The Single Parent, Children's Digest and The Friend. Ann Herrick grew up in Connecticut, where she graduated from The Morgan School and Quinnipiac University. She now lives in Oregon with her husband, who was her high-school sweetheart. Their wonderful daughter is grown, married and gainfully employed, and has given Ann her only grand-dog, Puff, a bloodhound-rottweiller-beagle mix. While she misses the East Coast, especially houses built before 1900, she enjoys the green valleys, fresh air and low humidity in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Ann loves cats, walking and working in her back yard. In addition to stories and books for children and young adults, Ann also writes copy for humorous and conventional greeting cards." The vast majority of Ann's books are HFN (Happily For Now, with the possibility of Happily Ever After. The characters are in their teens, after all, so Ever After would be a *really* long time.) Two books have positive endings, but not the standard HFN or HEA, but with those possibilities if the reader reads very carefully between the lines at the end of the story.

Aka Ann Crowleigh (joint pseudonym with Jo-Ann Power). Barbara Cummings is an award winning author of numerous novels (comedy, mystery, romance, and young adult), short stories, and poems.