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Crystal Velasquez

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Crystal Velasquez is the author of Just Princesses, the Hunters of Chaos series, the Your Life, But... series (Your Life, But Better; Your Life, But Cooler; and Your Life, But Sweeter) and four books in the Maya & Miguel series--My Twin Brother/My Twin Sister, Neighborhood Friends, The Valentine Machine, and Paint the Town. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of the New York University Summer Publishing Institute. Currently an editor at Working Partners Ltd. and a freelance proofreader, she lives, writes, and obsessively takes personality quizzes...

Julianna Miner

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Julianna Miner is an adjunct professor of Public Health at a college she couldn't have gotten into because she made bad choices in high school. She's the writer behind the award-winning humor blog Rants from Mommyland and the author of Raising A Screen Smart Kid: Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Parents Magazine, The Today Show, and many others. She lives in suburban Washington D.C. with her three kids, two dogs, and one husband.