has been editing
For Dummies
books for more than ten years. She's done yoga with model Stephanie Seymour, author of
Beauty Secrets For Dummies;
lunched with motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, author of
Success For Dummies;
and traded notes on basketball with former coach and commentator Digger Phelps, author of
Basketball For Dummies.
Her husband, Matt McClure, is a freelance writer. Together, they maintain their creativity in naming by thinking up alternate monikers for their “baby,” a 6–year–old Beagle mix officially named Emerson.
George R. Stewart
was a teacher and Berkeley Fellow at the University of California. During his lifetime, he wrote many scholarly works and several bestsellers, including
Storm, Fire, Earth Abides,
and
Names on the Land .