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A former fiction and magazine editor, Bev Katz Rosenbaum is the author of the young adult novels I Was a Teenage Popsicle and its upcoming sequel Beyond Cool. She doesn’t think she’s quite as messed up as Stephanie Plum, but it’s certainly close. Bev lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
Robin S. Rosenberg is a clinical psychologist and co-author of Psychology in Context and Fundamentals of Psychology (introductory psychology textbooks) and Abnormal Psychology: The Neuropsychosocial Approach (abnormal psychology textbook). She has taught psychology courses at Lesley University and Harvard University and has a private practice in the Boston area. Her first foray into applying psychological theories and research to popular culture figures was for The Psychology of Harry Potter; she is the editor of the Psychology of Superheroes anthology. She can be found at drrobinrosenberg.com.
The Psychology of Superheroes
The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon TattooKarl S. Rosengren, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research examines the development of causal reasoning in children. He is co-editor of Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children. He has been fascinated by all things magical and mysterious since growing up as a full-blooded Muggle in suburban New Jersey.
Christina Ross is an Ambassador of Healthy Living, a dynamic conscious recipe and product creator, educator of vitality through the art of eating and living vibrantly, a freelance writer and blogger. She is the founder of PatisseRaw, a transitional raw and vegan dessert line sold online and locally in Southern California. PatisseRaw has attracted a health-conscious celebrity following and has also been featured on NBC’s Today Show.
Christina’s recipes and healthful lifestyle tips have been published in Natural Child World Magazine through her column “Love-Fed.” Christina also contributes recipes and articles to popular sites and works such as RawfoodRecipes.com, Clean Food Living, Vegan Food Share, Organic Soul, Sheknows.com, Just Eat Real Food, RawGuru.com, and Kris Carr’s MyCrazySexyLife.com.
Christina keeps her many fans full of nutrient rich content through her blog Love-Fed.com and through television appearances, which have taken her to Chicago’s Good Day Chicago, as well as San Diego Living.
Bob Ross (1942–1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and the creator and host of PBS’s The Joy of Painting, an instructional painting technique television series that originally ran from 1982 until 1994.
Jim Ross has been involved in professional wrestling for fifty years and is considered the Voice of Wrestling. In addition to calling matches for Mid-South, NWA, WCW, WWE, AEW, and other entities, JR has also served as a key executive across those companies. Elected into the WWE, NWA, and National Wrestling Halls of Fame, Ross is also a New York Times bestselling author, a BBQ guru, and the cohost of his own podcast, Grilling JR. He is a central weekly voice for All Elite Wrestling, which airs on TBS and TNT. In addition to JR/50, he is the author of two memoirs, Under the Black Hat and Slobberknocker, and two cookbooks, J.R.’s Cookbook and Can You Take the Heat?
Carol Roth helps businesses grow and make more money. An investment banker, deal maker, and business strategist, she has helped her clients—who’ve ranged from “solopreneurs” to multinational corporations—raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete hundreds of millions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions transactions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals, create brand enthusiast programs, and more.
Carol is a frequent radio, television, and print media contributor on the topics of business and entrepreneurship, having appeared on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, WGN-TV Chicago, among others. Her blog Unsolicited Business Advice at CarolRoth.com was recently named as one of the Top 10 small business blogs online. Carol holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated magna cum laude. She currently resides in the Chicagoland area with her husband, Kurt, who is also an investment banker (and her former business partner). They have no children, pets, or plants, and are avid sports fans (particularly of NFL football). Carol is also a recovering toy collector, recently trading in a portion of her collection for a more sophisticated toy (a Simpsons pinball machine). For more information on Carol, visit CarolRoth.com.
Award-winning author Stephanie Rowe writes paranormal romance for Warner Books. She also writes teen fiction for girls under the name of Stephie Davis. For more information, visit Stephanie on the Web at www.stephanierowe.com or www.stephiedavis.com.
Russell Rowland’s first novel, In Open Spaces (HarperCollins, 2002), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which called it “an outstanding debut.” It made the San Francisco Chronicle’s bestseller list and was named among the Best of the West by the Salt Lake City Tribune. Russell recently completed The Watershed Years, a sequel to In Open Spaces. One of Russell’s stories was chosen as one of the notable stories of 2005 by the Million Writers Award, and he was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005. Russell is currently co-producing a feature film with his brother and consulting with several writers on their own projects. He lives in San Francisco.
