Dr Jim Mitchell lectured in history at the University of Melbourne in the 1970s and 1980s, was a Curator of eighteenth-century books at the British Library from 1979 to 1982, was Deputy Director of the Melbourne University Counselling Service in the 1980s and 1990s, and was Archivist at Scotch College in the 2000s. He has written six other books, all non-fiction.

While living in London Dr Mitchell sat on the Council of the British Section of Amnesty International. He divides his time between inner-city Melbourne and rural Gippsland.

Robert Wilson is systems librarian and assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. He has worked with library systems since 2011 in school, public, and academic libraries as well as the vendor side as an analyst and implementation manager. He has an MS in information systems from Middle Tennessee State University and an MSLIS from Drexel University. He's implemented dozens of open and closed source library systems at the libraries he's worked with and as a support analyst and later as an implementation manager worked with hundreds of libraries in implementation and integration of dozens of types of library software and applications.