Brenda Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary multicultural romance novels. Her novels have earned awards from RT Book Reviews in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and she is a recipient of a RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. There are more than three million of her books currently in print. She is the first African American author to appear on the bestseller lists for the series romance genre and has won a number of awards for her work throughout her career. Her book A Silken Thread was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor, Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.
