Shannon and Dean Hale are the wife-and-husband writing team behind Diana- Princess of the Amazons (illustrated by Victoria Ying), Eisner nominee Rapunzel's Revenge (illustrated by Nathan Hale), New York Times bestselling series The Princess in Black (illustrated by LeUyen Pham), and two novels about Marvel's Squirrel Girl. Shannon Hale is also the author of the Newbery Honor-winning novel Princess Academy, the USA Today bestselling Ever After High series, the graphic novel memoir Best Friends, and others. Shannon and Dean live in Utah with their four children, who are all pretty certain they're secretly magical royalty from another realm and just forgot. Asiah Fulmore is a freelance illustrator who currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with her two dogs, Ali and Ash. She spends her free time reading and loves to travel. If she got the chance to visit Gemworld, she'd hang with House Ruby, because they have the best food, obviously!