MIKE BLAKELY (www.MikeBlakely.com)
Spur Award winner and author of several westerns, he has co-authored TALES OUT OF LUCK: A Novel of Luckenbach, Texas with Willie Nelson (Center Street, 2008: editor, Christina Boys).

WYNTON C HALL (www.WyntonHall.com)
Former political communications consultant and speechwriter whose op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today and the Washington Times, Wynton Hall's work includes THE GREATEST COMMUNICATOR (Wiley, 2004; editor, Hana Lane), a personal and political memoir of Ronald Reagan, with Reagan's campaign strategist, Dick Wirthlin; and HOME OF THE BRAVE (Forge, 2006; editor, Bob Gleason), profiles of heroes of the war on terror, with Reagan's Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger.

CLINT JOHNSON (www.ClintJohnsonBooks.com)
Southern journalist (PURSUIT: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; Kensington, 2008; editor, Michaela Hamilton); co-author: THEY CALL ME BIG HOUSE, an authorized biography of renowned basketball coach, Clarence “Big House” Gaines: John F Blair, Publisher, 2004.

MARK LASSWELL
Journalist (New York Magazine, Spy, Wall Street Journal, New York Observer); currently, deputy books editor at the Wall Street Journal; and freelance editor who has worked on: Rudy Guiliani's LEADERSHIP and Mark Katz's CLINTON & ME (both books, Miramax, 2003 & 2004; editor, Jill Ellyn Riley); also, with Adam Horowitz and Mark Athitakis, THE DUMBEST MOMENTS IN BUSINESS HISTORY (Penguin, 2004; editor, Adrian Zackheim).  He is the co-author of CRUCIVERBALISM: Life Inside the Grid with crossworder Stanley Newman (HarperCollins, 2006; editor, Toni Sciarra).