Raymond Arroyo is a New York Times bestselling author, an internationally known, award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and producer.  He is creator of the bestselling Will Wilder series (Random House) for young readers, and the bestselling picture book, The Spider Who Saved Christmas. He is a Fox News Analyst and co-host, a former CNN contributor, and founding news director at EWTN News where he is seen in more than 380 million households internationally. Arroyo is the founder of Storyented.com, a literacy initiative. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Rebecca and their three children.

Kristina Gehrmann is an illustrator from Hamburg, Germany, with a focus on human characters and storytelling. She explores historical and fantasy subjects in a detailed painterly style using Photoshop and a Wacom Intuos tablet. Her clients are mainly book and tabletop games publishers, big and small, as well as museums. She also draws graphic novels, one of which has been published in the USA - The Jungle, based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. You can find out more about Kristina at www.kristinagehrmann.com.