Michael Matewauk was born in San Francisco one year before the "Summer of Love" and regrets being too young to remember much of anything. Literary events which influenced him (in no particular order) include:

1. Visiting his cousin Nancy and squirreling away every volume of her Nancy Drew collection, visit by visit, to be read in the back of parents' car, on the way home.

2. Falling asleep on his dad's lap as a boy, hearing/feeling the rich timbre of his voice through his chest as he read bedtime stories.

3. Winning a contest sponsored by the local paper to write a fictitious classified ad. His entry was a 'Help Wanted Ad' by Ronald Reagan looking for 1000 airline pilots (80s labor dispute anybody?). He was fourteen and the tickets he won to Great America have been the most rewarding thing he's ever received for being a writer.

4. The particular hush/mysterious buzz in middle-school whenever a new Judy Blume book would circulate through class.

5. Taking a ten-day tour to Hawaii with UC Berkeley alumni and Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Archive, to explore Twain's 1860s stint on the islands, which helped catapult him onto the national literary scene.

6. Seeing/reading his work on a kindle for the very first time.

About Dwayne and his merry band of ninjas

Dwayne Ferguson, who also goes by the name Hunter Wolf (long story, involves crime fighting...) has been in the graphic design and publishing industries since like forever. He's got amazing eyebrows.

He's created artwork for:

Walt Disney, Sony Music, Warner Bros., Johnson & Johnson, Horn & Hardart, PSE&G, Tony Roma's, MacMillian Publishing and some other folks.

He's created artwork for these franchises:

Mutant League, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, Transformers, California Raisins.

His own properties include the comic book series Hamster Vice, the children's book mystery series Kid Caramel: Private Investigator and the world's toughest covert operative Black Zero: Mercenary Ant. Unknown to many, he is a professionally trained voice actor and has done commercials, the voice of Black Zero and there's more about this later in this excruciatingly exciting (hello...is this thing on?) bio.

He likes coffee, hates sleep, laughs at the notion of naps (though not so much anymore. Hey those mid 40's are serious). Hunter thinks the whole world is insane so he plays along. He doesn't believe in water boarding or surf boarding because, last time he checked, the idea of being eaten by a shark is still not very popular.

Hunter is the CEO of DIEHARD Studio and produces awesomeness for clients and the world. When Hunter isn't fighting crime (and in the world we live in, that comes to roughly 42 seconds per day) he is creating entertaining and highly informative video tutorials for Virtual Training Company. He has taught classes on Photoshop, After Effects, Lightwave, Painter and more. He even produces a podcast on iTunes called VectorCrush!

In addition to this stuff the man has written books on technology including tomes on Mac OS X, Flash, Dreamweaver, FrontPage (oh, the FrontPage...that was painful...he's still in therapy over that one) and others.

He is married, lives in New Jersey, loves to read, play video games and on occasion, stare eye to eye with the Godzilla on his desk. Godzilla typically wins these stare-downs since he's a plastic figure and therefore cannot blink.