Brenda Novak is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of women's fiction, romance and suspense with more than ten million books in print, translated into twenty different languages. Now that she's a grandmother, she's begun to write children's books, as well. No Again? is her debut story in a series of books about words. She also runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity to raise money for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). To date, she's raised $2.6 million. For more about Brenda, please visit www.brendanovak.com. Pablo Ortega López (POL) is a distinguished award-winning Ecuadorian visual development artist who has had a long career in illustration. He has published thousands of drawings in books, newspapers, and magazines, as well as 2D and 3D animations in video documentaries and television shows and commercials. Since 2006, he lives in California. He has illustrated dozens of books. In addition, he is the author of the texts and drawings of the educational cartoon Las aventuras de Don Elhoy in the newspaper Hoy (Quito, Ecuador, 2000), the 2003 comic adaptation of the comedy La comedia inmortal by of the Ecuadorian classic writer of the early 20th century Pablo Palacio, the caricature Tobías the vagabond for the newspaper El Quiteño (Ecuador, 2011) and Pelucolandia La Criolla (2012) a comic series on Ecuadorian Economic History, among others. For several years he has collaborated in the edition of several educational novels for learning Spanish with CPLI.net. En busca del monstruo (2013) is his first fully literary work.