When Charles Ferro was around nine years old, he asked his grandmother to take him to a movie made from an Edgar Allan Poe story. The film scared the daylights out of the young boy. He has loved stories about the supernatural ever since that day. Charles was born in Utica, a small city in upstate New York where many of his books take place. He has been living in Copenhagen, Denmark for more than 30 years.

Tony Varrato grew up in Millsboro, Delaware in the USA and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1988. He has taught in Vineland NJ, Selbyville DE and Georgetown DE. He is both an author and high school English teacher who knows his audience well. He wrote this novel specifically for the reluctant readers in his classroom, and others like them. In his words, "They wanted something fast-paced, actionpacked, and short." In addition to his first novel, "Fakie", he is also the author to "Outrage" and likes to connect with his readers through his MySpace page and website, tonyvarrato.com.

Javier Navarro was born in Malaga in 1966. He lived in Spain, in Salamanca, for several years, where he studied philology. Later he became a Spanish teacher at the Universities of Salamanca and Würzburg in Germany, where he's lived for nine years. Javier Navarro likes a lot of things: He likes being with his family, playing sports, travelling, watching a good movie and speaking with his friends. But mostly he likes books: both reading and writing them. Today he lives in Salamanca where he works as a translator and writer.