Michael B. Koep has been called an Inland Northwest "Renaissance Man". An avid world traveler, educator, accomplished visual artist and touring rock musician. Michael's spirit is imbued in the arts. He is a co-founder of the North Idaho fencing consortium but, he is best known as a drummer and lyricist for the progressive rock group KITE, as well as the percussionist for the variety trio The Rub. He is the winner of a Costello Poetry Prize.

Marlene Adelstein is a thoughtful, patient, discreet freelance book and screenplay editor working with writers of all levels. Writers who have agents, those who don't, writers who have sold books to publishers, and many who hope to. She helps writers develop their ideas, critiques manuscripts, line edits and ghostwrites material. Her specialties are novels (commercial fiction, mystery, thrillers, women's, historical, literary), memoir and screenplays.