About the Authors
Jack Canfield is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and has received international recognition. An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he is also the CEO of the Canfield Training Group and the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to having won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has been nominated multiple times for the prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, and she also narrates audiobooks under the name Jane Brown.
Amy Newmark is publisher, coauthor, and editor of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. She has edited or coauthored the last
one hundred books in the series. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University where she majored in Portuguese, and spent her senior year editing a
newsletter about telecom sales in Brazil and also traveling in northeast
Brazil, collecting poems and stories of local writers for her thesis. She went
on to run her own hedge fund, specializing in telecommunications and technology
companies and stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008. She
is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career. Amy is married to
Chicken Soup’s CEO, Bill Rouhana.
Madeline Clapps
is an editor for Chicken Soup for the Soul, as well as a co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High
School.
About the Narrators
Ellen Grafton has narrated numerous audiobooks, many in
the kids and young adult categories. She can be heard on such titles as Duff, Girls Acting Catty, New Beginnings,
and several of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Teens Talk series.
Tom Parks is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has also been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has been involved in recording audiobooks and voice-overs for over thirty years and through an eclectic range of projects. In addition to performing and directing, he is also an active musician, drumming in musical theater productions in the Midwest, and is in demand as a conference speaker.