Richard Russo lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man and Empire Falls, and a collection of short stories, The Whore's Child.
William 'Bill' Hope is a Canadian stage, film, television and voice actor. He has appeared in the films Aliens, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Shining Through, The Saint, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and xXx, among others. Since 2009, he has been heard in the Thomas & Friends children's TV and DVD series. He also returned to the horror genre, working in the Solar Film's experimental Dark Floors, released in Europe in 2008. He is also regularly heard on BBC Radio and is part of the BBC Broken News cast.