David Lee Miller is an award-winning filmmaker who has four cats -- Pau Pau, Basil, Sage, and Amadeus Meowzart. His teen dramedy Archie's Final Project (aka My Suicide ) won 21 Best Picture Awards around the world, including the Berlin Film Festival. David wrote for Marvel's Spider-Man animated series, the adaptation storybooks for the feature films Baby and The Goonies , and created some of the first kids' computer games -- Zoo-Opolis! and the Explorers series.

Steven Jay Rubin previously authored Combat Films: American Realism 1945-2010 , and The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia . He produced the World War II drama Silent Night , nominated for four Canadian Television Academy Awards, and the documentary Return to the Great Escape . A James Bond expert and author of The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia , Steve likes his smoothies shaken not stirred. Since writing this book, he is no longer allergic to cats.

Together, Miller and Rubin co-founded Regenerate (www.regenerateonline.org), an award-winning nonprofit arts organization that empowers youth to create and distribute media addressing important teen issues.

Elizabeth Baddeley is an award-winning illustrator of such notable titles as: I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark and The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation) . Elizabeth has been honored by Communication Arts, American Illustration, 3x3 Magazine, Print, and the Society of Illustrators from which she received a gold medal for her Swimmer Girls series. Elizabeth resides in Kansas City, Missouri with her husband and small menagerie.