Steven Roby is a respected Jimi Hendrix historian, archivist, and author. He has written feature articles and reviews for Goldmine and Guitar World and was editor of Straight Ahead: The International Jimi Hendrix Fanzine and the Hendrix family's authorized fanzine, Experience Hendrix. His previous books include Becoming Jimi Hendrix and Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix.

Roby also worked for Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company founded by James "Al" Hendrix, helped organize numerous tribute concerts including Seattle's Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festival (1995), The Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition (1997) and in 2009 he assembled over 370 guitarists (including Jimi's brother Leon) who played "Purple Haze" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Roby has lectured on Hendrix at the University of Indianapolis, the University of Victoria, and the University of California. In 2007, he began teaching a college course called Jimi Hendrix: His Life and Music, which featured a Grammy awarding producer and Hendrix's close friend Melinda Merryweather as guest speakers.

In addition to writing and teaching, Roby has worked in Bay Area radio for the past thirty years co-producing syndicated shows, as a music director, and a morning show host.

Brad Schreiber has written not only books but also journalism, film, television, radio and theatre. He has also served as a producer, actor, director, literary consultant and instructor.

He is the winner of the 2022 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism, joining prior recipients Dan Rather and Dr. Anthony Fauci. He has cowritten with Ron Stallworth a book on racism, policing and social justice, FROM BLACK KLANSMAN TO HIP-HOP COP, to be published by Flatiron/Macmillan.

MUSIC IS POWER, Schreiber's latest publication, a history of socially conscious music in all genres, was honored by the Foreword INDIES Book Awards. His book REVOLUTION'S END, an expose of the prison and CIA connections to the SLA kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, won the Silver Medal for True Crime at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards and won for the category of Multicultural Nonfiction at the 2017 International Book Awards.

The early years biography BECOMING JIMI HENDRIX, written from the research of historian Steven Roby, was nominated for the International Book Awards and selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library.

Schreiber was Vice President of Storytech Literary Consulting for 12 years, for Christopher Vogler, author of THE WRITER'S JOURNEY, where Schreiber analyzed prose and screenwriting for clients all over the world. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Press Foundation, the New York Festivals, Edward Albee Foundation and others.