About the Authors

FERN FIELD BROOKS is an award-winning television producer/writer/director and author who finally has a "home of her own" in Palm Desert, California. "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" is her second book. She met collaborator, Thom Racina, when they were both working on an International soap opera (FAMILY PASSIONS) in Toronto, Canada. Her television career began in 1975 when she got a job as assistant to the Executive Producer of the top-rated CBS sit-com "MAUDE" and she quickly rose through the ranks, garnering an OSCAR nomination for her first film endeavor - a live-action short subject titled "A DIFFERENT APPROACH" which she produced and directed. She also received an EMMY for her first television drama, "THE WAVE". Her first book "LETTERS TO MY HUSBAND..." which she describes as an odyssey through a year of mourning, but readers call a love story, has been published in hard-cover in Canada, the United States and Japan. Ms. Field was born in Italy of Russian parents and grew up in "every hotel in and around Carnegie Hall" in New York City.
To Fern's "LETTERS TO MY HUSBAND" website: http://www.letterstomyhusband.com

THOM RACINA created the "Ice Princess" story on ABC TV's General Hospital, including the wedding of Luke & Laura, the highest rated daytime program of the past century. He was Emmy nominated five times for head writing that series and over 4,000 broadcast hours of Days of our Lives, Another World, Generations and Santa Barbara. He wrote Family Passions in Toronto, but started his career as a novelist. His disaster thriller entitled The Great Los Angeles Blizzard was a bestseller in 1980, and has become a cult classic. In the past four years he's authored mystery/thrillers SNOW ANGEL, HIDDEN AGENDA, SECRET WEEKEND and THE MADMAN'S DIARY, with over 700,000 copies total in print. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he planned a life in the theatre, writing paperback books to put himself through the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago. He got his MFA, but never stopped writing. A frequent flyer junkie, he does most of his writing on his laptop on airplanes. But when the plane lands, he makes Palm Springs, California, his home, which is convenient because his partner and dear friend, Fern Field Brooks, lives right down the road.

To Thom Racina's website: http://www.thomracina.com