Biographical note

Cindy L. Rodriguez is the author of the YA novel When Reason Breaks and has contributed to the anthology Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles. She has also written the text for Volleyball Ace, Drill Team Determination, and Gymnastics Payback, all part of the Jake Maddox series. Before becoming a teacher, she was an award-winning reporter for The Hartford Courant and researcher for The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team. She is a founder of Latinxs in Kid Lit, a blog that celebrates children's literature by/for/about Latinxs. Cindy is a big fan of the three Cs: coffee, chocolate, and coconut. She is currently a middle school reading specialist in Connecticut, where she lives with her family. Since graduation, Paul McCaffrey has worked as a freelance illustrator, mainly in the area of children’s education. His clients have included NME, Vox, Punch, Deadline, Empire, CUP, OUP, Attack! Books, Macmillan, Harcourt and Heinemann, amongst others. More recently, he has drawn comics for companies as diverse as Marvel, DC, IDW, Thinkable and Network Distribution. For Titan Comics, he has produced a number of covers as well as drawing Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem and co-creating Adler with Lavie Tidhar. He lives in the UK with his wife and cat and far too many books than is good for him.